The Dance Umbrella festival celebrates its 28th year with principal funding from the Department of Arts & Culture and the Gauteng Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. Other key partners are the U.S. Mission South Africa, Creative Feel magazine and Splitbeam, Dance Umbrella’s chief supplier of technical equipment; and also the French Institut of South Africa; the Goethe Institut Johannesburg (Dance Writer’s Workshop), National Arts Council; City of Joburg, The Market Theatre Foundation, Soweto Theatre, Camoes-Instituto Da Cooperacao Da Lingua, Embassy of Portugal South Africa and Lufthansa. Dance Umbrella 2016 opens on February 25 at the UJ Arts Centre Theatre and runs until March 6, 2016. Dance Umbrella 2016 extends a thank you to its many partners without whom the festival would not have been presented: The Department of Arts & Culture; the Gauteng Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, the U.S. Mission South Africa, the French Institut of South Africa; the Goethe Institut Johannesburg (Dance Writer’s Workshop), National Arts Council; City of Joburg, The Market Theatre Foundation, Soweto Theatre, Camoes-Instituto Da Cooperacao Da Lingua and Embassy of Portugal South Africa, Lufthansa and Creative Feel and a special thank you to Splitbeam who will supply the technical equipment for the festival. Tickets from R80 to R150 are available from Computicket - 083 915 8000 or www.computicket.com and for performances at the Soweto Theatre: 0861 670 670 or www.webtickets.com For block booking discounts and programme updates, please call 011 492 2033 / 0709 or email danceumbrella@danceforum.co.za / lindiwe@danceforum.co.za The Dance Umbrella 2016 programme is available on the website: www.danceforumsouthafrica.co.za Follow Dance Umbrella on: Twitter: @danceumbrellaSA Facebook: Dance Umbrella Festival Johannesburg Instagram: Dance_Umbrella_SA