Dignité -Tour — Chokri Ben Chikha
Produced by L’Art Rue | International tour
A man, a past, a stage. Following the traces of the human zoo, Chokri Ben Chikha interrogates History—its silences, its repetitions. He opens a space where colonial legacies confront the urgencies of the present.
Through stories, images and movement, bodies bear witness. The colonial past is not closed: it lingers in gazes, in discourse, in exclusions. What remains today of the human zoo? How do its echoes continue to shape our contemporary societies?
Dignité gives voice to those whom history has silenced. By blending theatre, performance and living memory, Ben Chikha creates a space of resistance—where art becomes a critical lens and the tensions between domination, representation and otherness are played out.
A necessary work, both intimate and political, that asks us to look differently—and to restore dignity.
Premiered at Dream City 2025, Dignité received a powerful and unanimous response from audiences and critics, sparking lively discussions and numerous re-invitation requests. This acclaim accompanies the international tour that follows: the piece continues to be praised and programmed across relevant European stages, confirming its resonance wherever it goes.
Tour / international presentation
Marseille – Festival “Les rencontres à l’échelle”
• Creation residency: May 25 → June 4
• Performances: June 5 → 7
Ostend – Festival “Theater Aan Zee”
• Creation residency: July 22 → 28
• Performances: July 29 → August 8
Brussels – invited by Kaaitheater
• Creation residency: September 28 → 30
• Performances: October 1 → 3
Rotterdam – invited by Theater Rotterdam
• Creation residency: January 9 → 13, 2027
• Performances: January 14 → 16, 2027
The tour of Dignité is framed within the broader Saison Méditerranée 2026 and aligns with L’Art Rue’s invitation in France. Within this shared narrative of Mediterranean artistic circulation, the work participates in exchanges of residencies, co-productions, encounters between audiences and collaborative programming that cross shores and languages. Dignité thus becomes an intimate and political focal point in ongoing dialogues on memory, migration and colonial legacies across the Mediterranean.
