Selim Ben Safia, biography

Selim Ben Safia is a Franco-Tunisian choreographer and dancer who trained in hip-hop at the Sybel Ballet Theatre in Tunis and founded Al Badil, a Tunis association that runs the Festival des Premieres Choregraphiques, Hors Lits Tunisie and the Carthage Dance Days. His pieces include Femme (2013), Impasse (2014) and El Botiniere (2022), set in a Tunis cabaret and toured in Tunisia, France, Morocco, Mali and Quebec. In 2026 he curated the Focus Mediterranee of the June Events festival at the Atelier de Paris, and his new work Labes, with scenography by Nadia Kaabi-Linke on the destroyed Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem and music by Marine-Suzanne de Loye and Hazem Berrabeh, premiered at the Hammamet International Festival in July 2026.