Award-winning Spanish flamenco guitarist and dancer visit KU for residency - The Department of Music and Dance in KU's School of Fine Arts welcomes the award-winning Spanish flamenco guitarist José Luis Rodriguez and Cuban-American flamenco dancer Niurca Marquez to Lawrence for an intensive residency, February 10-18, 2007.

The Lawrence Arts Center is currently exhibiting work by Carol Ann Carter, University of Kansas expanded media professor. The exhibition runs through February 28 and features an Artist's Talk on Wednesday, January 31.

Kansas University Opera in the Department of Music and Dance will present Tales of Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach's great masterpiece and perennial favorite, for five performances beginning February 1st. The opera will be sung in English and accompanied by a small combo led by Mark Ferrell, KU Opera music director and associate professor of music.

Two KU students were chosen from hundreds of applicants to perform at the New York City Trinity Church spring 2007 concert. Each of the students is enrolled in a doctoral program in the Department of Music and Dance in the KU School of Fine Arts.