GHOST 5 – FESTIVAL OF BUTOH, SOUND AND VISION / Lucie Betz & Pyrolator / June 26th 2026

GHOST 5 - Festival of Butoh, Sound and Vision brings together Butoh dancers, sound artists and visual artists from Germany, France, Greece and the UK to create an experimental, stimulating and immersive landscape of experience for performers and audiences. In a time of acceleration and social isolation, the festival aims to open up spaces for deceleration, self-centeredness and respectful togetherness. It asks: How can art help us to accept ourselves, take responsibility and find resonance in others? How can the I merge with the We without giving up?

The GHOST 5 – Festival of Butoh, Sound and Vision Festival took place from June 18th 2026 until July 12th 2026 at WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf. The Düsseldorf based sculptor and artist Andreas Schmitten was invited to create the visual scene for this years festival.

Performances

June 18th 2026

Performance Parcours I

With Yuko Kaseki + Dolly Dolly & Fogroom and Lisa Bless + Philipp Johann Thimm

June 26th 2026

Performance Parcours II

With Moeno Wakamatsu + N and Lucie Betz + Pyrolator

Spot-On-Performance with Iphigenia Vogiatzaki and Susan El Hosri

Project management: WELTKUNSTZIMMER

Curation: Wolfgang Schäfer

Sound and Light:

DGT Veranstaltungstechnik

Camera and Editing :

Vinzenz Schneider

Wolfgang Schäfer

GHOST 5 – Festival of Butoh, Sound and Vision, supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf and Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland. With the kind support of SIGMA.

Social Media:

Weltkunstzimmer @weltkunstzimmer

Lucie Betz @betz.lucie

Pyrolator @pyrolator1

Andreas Schmitten @studio_andreas_schmitten

Vinzenz Schneider @vinzenz_west

Wolfgang Schäfer (Instagram) @wolfgang4838 (Vimeo) @Wolfgang Schaefer