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Punit is an interdisciplinary dance-theatre artist based in Vancouver. He works across choreography, theatre, installation, film, and technology, making contemporary works about identity, belonging, and society.
His work has been presented across Canada by New Works, Dance West Network, Festival Quartiers Danses, Kinetic Studio, and Mile Zero Dance, and internationally in Japan.
Punit is an active part of the street-dance community and has worked as an actor in commercial and television projects. He has trained with Sophia Sosa, Arash Khakpour, Deanna Peters, and Lesley Telford. His practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, and he is a recipient of Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Dance Prize.
Recent Works
Recent Works
Ye Dil Sun Raha Hai (2025-ongoing)
Ye Dil Sun Raha Hai (2025-ongoing)
Dance-theatre duet exploring memory, cultural identity, and the fragments of self shaped by media, popular culture, and nostalgia. Blending movement, voice, and storytelling, the work reconstructs personal and collective histories through remembered songs, images, and experiences, examining how culture continues to live within the body.
Presentations/Research: Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vActory series, What Lab, Vancouver).
Entangled (2023-ongoing)
Entangled (2023-ongoing)
Interdisciplinary research project exploring the future of intimacy, relationships, and human connection. Combining dance, AI, and speculative storytelling, the project investigates how technology reshapes our ideas of partnership, belonging, loneliness, and collective existence.
Research Support: Canada Council for the Arts.
We Just Out Here Loitering! (2025-ongoing)
We Just Out Here Loitering! (2025-ongoing)
Site-specific dance-theatre duet exploring loitering as both a physical act and a social condition. Drawing from street dance culture, public life, and everyday acts of gathering, the work investigates the social choreographies that emerge through waiting, wandering, observing, and spending time together in shared spaces.
Presentations/Research: NewWorks (All Over the Map Festival), Dance West Network (DADAO), Dance Victoria Chrystal Dance Prize Research (London, UK), Festival Quartiers Danses (Montreal), Toyooka Fringe Festival (Japan), Alliance Française Vancouver
SubHuman (2023–ongoing)
SubHuman (2023–ongoing)
Solo dance-theatre work exploring internalized social hierarchies and psychological conditioning. The piece combines contemporary and street dance with spoken text and sound design to examine cycles of self-doubt, identity performance, and repetition.
Presentations/Research: Up In The Air Theatre (rEvolver Festival, The Cultch, Vancouver), The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Dance West Network (Surrey Civic Theatres & Morrow, Vancouver), Method Dance Society (Playhouse, Prince George), Miles Zero Dance (Edmonton), and Kinetics Dance (Halifax).
homesick (2025)
homesick (2025)
homesick is an experimental movement film exploring homesickness, identity, longing, and cultural memory through movement improvisation, text, and a single continuous overhead shot.
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