What an exciting question!

San Diego could do so much better!

A week-long intensive in San Diego (that starts after ten in the morning!) with any of my heroes that I travel around the globe to study with would be a dream come true:

Ariellah
Carolena Nericcio
Cera Byer
Frédérique David
Mira Betz
Rachel Brice
Zoe Jakes

Haven't had a chance to study with Colleena, Donna Mejia, Jill Parker or Suhaila Salimpour yet, but I definitely want to.

Of course I would settle for just a weekend, if a week is out of the range of most dancers' interest or willingness to invest in their creative dreams.

Would love to study for a weekend with Heather Stants (her workshops are *totally* different than her classes!), Kami Liddle, Mardi Love, Shawna Rai, or Sooz Hall.

I would rather pass on any early-morning workshop (anything that starts before ten) and most workshops that are just another mindless blurt of old choreography. I really want something meatier that requires at least as much preparation from the instructor as I'm wanting to invest in the workshop, thanks! Teach me something I need to know about performance, theatricality, musicality, cleaning up my technique, creating choreography, improvisational methods, more effective cross training, and getting the hell out of my own way.

I don't care which studio, as long as there is no A/C blasting (gah!) and I don't have to do turns on carpet. The floors at the World Beat Center are an epic fail.

It would only make sense to not have the same person in San Diego for a weekend that Politti has recently hosted in Redlands, of course, since the Oasis is just a 90-minute drive away.

Oh, and for the love of heaven, please no late-night performance thing before an early-morning workshop. Total scheduling fail! Nothing irritates me more about intensives than someone who treats dancers like they don't need rest. Be nice to me, and I will come back again and again.

Thanks so much for asking!

Wow, what options, endless really. But off hand I would like to see more workshops geared toward story telling (I know there have been some, but not a lot) and as well as integration of Spirit, the Goddess, whatever that is to whomever is personal, but have a spiritual connection to the dance. Tecnique is irreplaceable, but more creative stuff. I'm actually starting to see more of that, in the resent, I think it will be in the forefront before long. Tec can only go so far with out soul. My 2 cents.

Rachel Brice, And anything she want to teach.