The Japanese dance Butoh is a way of activating the human body-cell memory. We are in a constant state of development. The universe is here and now, death and life an ongoing story. In engaging with the performance, people, both as actors and spectators, take on personal responsibility and no longer feel part of an individual drama, but as part of a global context.

The GHOST3 Butoh Soundart Festival seeks the synergy of dance, sound, image, and installation in order to explore the primordial human questions of life’s meaning and transience through the mutually amplifying expression of these art forms.

The foundation of the festival is an exhibition featuring film works by Alisa Berger, walk-in installations by Wolfgang Schäfer, and sculptural works by Yukie Laurentia Beheim. Over the course of two days, selected spaces will become the setting for performance parcours involving a total of six dancers and six sound artists from Japan and Germany. The multifaceted site of the former industrial bakery will be transformed into an immersive environment, offering invited artists atmospheric inspiration for the experiment of creating the greatest possible intensity of experience through a self-directed encounter between dance and sound.

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, the Sparkassen Cultural Foundation Rhineland, and the Arts and Culture Foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf.
With the kind support of SIGMA.

Under the patronage of the Japanese Consulate General Düsseldorf