Keisha Tonte Dokubo

Director 

Dance artist Keisha Tonte Dokubo BA, IDTA, MA, founder of @tontedance, has a vision to see communities health restored and wounds healed through Christian urban dance.

She is a IDTA qualified dance teacher, workshop facilitator and project manager, with over 20 years' experience in international community dance with a range of ages.

Keisha initially trained in gymnastics, ballet, tap, street dance, and continued to diversify at IRIE! dance theatre where she graduated with a 1st class degree in diverse dance styles - developing in choreography, traditional African, Caribbean dance, contemporary, ballet, hip hop and house dance. Then a Masters in Diasporic dance styles (2025) also with IRIE!.

She then began to explore her own ‘healing through dance’ choreographic works and is currently focusing on developing her practice in performance and screen dance production.

She created ‘4 Hours’ (2022) - which focused on the role music and dance play in healing, where she worked with composer David Llewellyn of Dellauno Productions to create original music and then later carried on this theme and developed Fidget. A research project exploring if her healing through dance workshops were beneficial, specifically with neurodiverse dancers.

Fidget was quickly commissioned for a local dance festival - Dancing Together Festival 2023, by Back on the Map Project,London UK - focusing on dance of the African diaspora and has since won two awards for best documentary (Japan 2025) and most inspirational film (India, 2025) and was also featured and screened as part of Tokyo International Short Film Festival (2025).

Recent works forthcoming PAUSE-trilogy that examines stillness, memory and acceleration through dance.