01 / FULL-LENGTH SOLO
SubHuman
A solo dance-theatre work about mental hierarchies, difficult feelings and self-deprecating humour—finding the absurd in everyday encounters, even ordering a burger without onions.
DANCE · THEATRE · FILM EXPLORE WORKS ↓
02 / SELECTED WORKS
2023 — ONGOING
02 / SITE-SPECIFIC DUET
We Just Out Here Loitering!
A site-specific duet exploring loitering as a way to connect with people and place, while questioning productivity and ownership of time.
03 / DUET
Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai
A nostalgic dance-theatre duet about migration, disappearing subcultures, and the songs that carry memories of home.
04 / SPECULATIVE FILM
Entangled
Ongoing experimental film research imagining how AI and emerging technologies might reshape intimacy, community and isolation.
05 / EXPERIMENTAL MOVEMENT FILM
homesick
An experimental movement film about ancestral migration, longing and belonging, through breaking set to Pakistani folk music.
06 / UPCOMING RESEARCH — 2027
I Owe You
Upcoming dance-theatre research asking what we owe one another in relationships and communities—and why.
03 / ABOUT THE ARTIST
Punit.
Punit is an interdisciplinary dance-theatre artist based in Vancouver. He works across movement, theatre, text, installation, film and technology, making contemporary works about identity, belonging and society.
His performance works have been presented across Canada by New Works, Dance West Network, Festival Quartiers Danses, Upintheair Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Kinetic Studio and Mile Zero Dance, and internationally at the Toyooka Theatre Festival in Japan. His writing includes work for Discorder and Arc Poetry Magazine (2026).
Punit has a background in computer science and completed a diploma in acting and film at New Image College. Active in the street-dance community, 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.
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
Toronto Dance Theatre — Eyes on Beginnings (2027, upcoming)
Electric Company Theatre — ECT ARC (2026)
Dance West Network — DADAO Arts Outside (2025)
Dance West Network — Re-Centering/Margins (2024)
TEACHING
Kinetic Studio, Halifax; Studio Worcle Ichigaya, Tokyo; Bamboo Company and Studio 1000, Osaka; Blue Bird Space, Seoul (with Jamey Wamey); Method Dance Society, Prince George.
04 / WRITING & PRESS
Writing & press.
Authored work
2026Discorder Magazine“After everyone says they’re leaving”
2026Arc Poetry Magazine“Of my property” · “How I got my citizenship”
Media coverage
2026Conversations and Essays on Dance in British Columbia — Dance Collection Danse ↗Dance Collection Danse · print anthology
2026Moveo Magazine — Gabrielle Bertrand-Lehouillier ↗Des arts dehors, un voyage aux multiples saveurs
2026HIBOCO — JapanJapan · link unavailable
05 / CONTACT