ABOUT TONTE DANCE
HEALING MEETS HIP HOP
Tonte Dance creates brave, faith-centred spaces where healing meets hip hop rhythms.
Rooted in Nigerian-Jamaican heritage and lived experience, our practice uses storytelling, urban freestyle movement and scripture-rooted prompts to nurture calm hearts, freer bodies and real change in everyday life.
Keisha’s healing story
“For over forty years, severe eczema dictated my life, what I ate, I wore, even where I went. I found myself hiding on the inside but smiling on the outside. I believed the doctors who told me it was something I just had to 'manage'.
Everything changed when I brought it all before God. I paired practical steps with scripture meditation, prayer and a deeper walk of faith - slowly healing took root.
Barriers I thought were fixed began to shift.
Training hard in dance while completing my degree opened a new season of freedom. My body transformed. Confidence returned.
Today, my story is completely different. My skin cleared. I now lead from the front with an internal smile, and quiet confidence. Dance became my sanctuary, where I found true freedom in God's presence. I lived it and came out victorious.
This is what drives my practice, my hope for YOUR story, as you make that decision to let movement be your prayer, let your story build character and know that healing is possible.”
When I brought my whole self — body, mind and spirit — before God, healing finally came.”
— Keisha aka Tonte
WATCH
Watch the work
EDEN: The Choice
Embodied scripture for every day life
Remember Bethesda
Biblical healing through urban dance.
Trusted by communities
Our work grows from over 30 years of creative community development across 8 countries and 4 continents.
Our first ever dance film project FIDGET on neurodiversity, FIDGET dancers scored us an average of 8 out of 10, and would have scored higher if we gave 'more time' to explore the interesting topics we presented that were bringing healing, they just wanted to dig deeper. FIDGET has since been selected for four film festivals, at time of print, and specifically requested by festivals in Tokyo and Nepal.
We partner with gospel artists, churches and both faith and non-faith based community groups with an identified need, to build safe spaces where diverse people can heal and grow.
Rated 5★ on Yell.com, providing care and generating impact as we enter a space.
30+ years creative community work
8 countries • 4 continents
25+ years teaching community dance
30+ years cross-cultural mentoring
PTTLS-trained workshop facilitator
First-class BA (Hons) in diverse dance styles
MA in Diasporic Dance Styles (IRIE! dance theatre)
Experience in 7 dance styles: hip hop, house, African, Caribbean, contemporary, ballet, and freestyle
Creator of Healing Through Christian Urban Dance Workshops, delivered in 5 industries with actors, performing artists, professional and aspiring dancers and organisations open to creative healing.
It just made me feel seen, made me feel valued, made me feel heard, and it made me feel a part of something. I would want to do it again now being in the space I'm in now in... I matter and anyone that has neurodiversity matters.”
— Callum Jaye Dancer, FIDGET 2022 (rated his experience 9/10)
Keisha challenged me to go beyond my comfort zone... She was patient, encouraging and delivered feedback constructively. Keisha’s heart is to see people released and healed through dance, and I gained a lot from working with her.”
— Sarah Eden, Dancer 2025
Make space to heal & grow through faith-centred dance
Healing through Christian urban dance runs through everything we do from community projects to workshops to our dancers on set.
They all come out better.
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