I just got home from the first day of the Mohamed El Hosseny workshop in St Louis. He is *amazing* - In the morning, we did Saiidi. (Amusingly, he used a song off of Wash ya Wash 6, that Yousri Sharif used for a cane choreography that Nourhan Sharif taught when she did a workshop here a few years ago.)

The afternoon was Simsimiyya, dancing from the area around Suez. I have never seen nor even heard of this style before, and it was so much fun. My brain hurts, but I love, love, love these workshops where we get to learn something new like this. He taught dancing with spoons, but it was very different from the Turkish style of dancing with spoons. Again, mind-blowing.

Tomorrow, he's taching Nubian and Sha'abi. I can't wait.