THE 2025
Nomsa Manaka DanceBeat
WALKING & DANCING OUT OF CANCER
THE 2025
Nomsa Manaka DanceBeat
WALKING & DANCING OUT OF CANCER
About
NMDB
The Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat initiative was founded by Nomsa Manaka - an award winning South African Dancer, Choreographer and Actress, trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance, Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat is a social entity developed to provide children in the townships a safe recreational facility to express their creativity through dance. Through the Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat platform, Manaka is telling her story of how she has survived the excruciating journey of cancer, where she almost gave up on her artistic dream of teaching dance to the children she mentors across Soweto.
Instead, and encouraged by her son Mak , she is using the platform to encourage others that there is no dream too big to achieve regardless of your circumstances. This then inspired the creation of the Walking and Dancing Out Of Cancer fund raising Festival.
About
NMDB
The Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat initiative was founded by Nomsa Manaka - an award winning South African Dancer, Choreographer and Actress, trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance, Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat is a social entity developed to provide children in the townships a safe recreational facility to express their creativity through dance. Through the Nomsa Manaka Dance Beat platform, Manaka is telling her story of how she has survived the excruciating journey of cancer, where she almost gave up on her artistic dream of teaching dance to the children she mentors across Soweto. Instead, and encouraged by her son Mak , she is using the platform to encourage others that there is no dream too big to achieve regardless of your circumstances. This then inspired the creation of the Walking and Dancing Out Of Cancer fund raising Festival.
Everyone has been affected by the scourge of cancer at varying degrees either by witnessing a loved one suffer or knowing someone who has or has had cancer.
A cancer diagnosis is given to someone, somewhere in the world every single minute. Child cancers in particular, are often not detected early enough and neither are spoken about widely enough. It is also for that reason that we have chosen the Childhood Cancer Foundation SA (CHOC) to be the main beneficiary of this initiative, but we are still pleading for more help.
Everyone has been affected by the scourge of cancer at varying degrees either by witnessing a loved one suffer or knowing someone who has or has had cancer.
A cancer diagnosis is given to someone, somewhere in the world every single minute. Child cancers in particular, are often not detected early enough and neither are spoken about widely enough. It is also for that reason that we have chosen the Childhood Cancer Foundation SA (CHOC) to be the main beneficiary of this initiative, but we are still pleading for more help.
