Chokri Ben Chikha is an actor, director, choreographer, performer and writer. He is artistic director of the international performance company Action Zoo Humain and teaches and researches at KASK in Ghent, where he received his PhD in Arts in 2013. 

In his work, Chokri questions the tension between ethics, identity and neoliberalism: he identifies these concepts as three of the main challenges of the 21st century. 

With Dignity, Chokri Ben Chikha is invited to Dream City for the first time. The project has been supported and produced by the festival since 2023.