Simran Sachar

Simran Sachar is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, writer, and actor who currently dedicates time to their artistic practice on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as “Vancouver.” A captivating anomaly in street, contemporary, and commercial dance, her work, rooted in her lineage and lived experiences, moves between exploring the live body and the body captured by technology as a channel for disruption, transformation and possibility. What seems to be strange reveals itself as a function for something familiar. Sachar’s work is made for whomever encounters it to feel something. At the center of her process, she is committed to empowering the underdog. She works across TV/film, theatre, XR, the street dance battle scene, and public art. As of this year, Sachar is working with W*ackers across Vancouver and Montreal to create her first ensemble work titled Twister. Recent highlights include co-choreographing Today is the evening to strike lightning (Indian Summer Festival, 2025), co-directing These hands are still at work (Surrey Art Gallery), premiering and touring her XR film The Edge of The Underworld (2024), and her live work ACT TWENTY FIVE. Her films BETA बेटा and LUNACY have screened nationally, with LUNACY earning FORM's Audience Choice Award, and being featured in the National Arts Centre's CAPSULE series. Sachar is the winner of Release Yourself Whacking Battle in Montreal.