2026 Opening Party

Khalil Albatran

Khalil Albatran is an electronic music composer, DJ, and dancer. In his music, he blends abstract sound with collective memory, using experimental dance as a parallel form of expression in search of a new space for freedom. He has produced several music albums and performance pieces that have been presented at the international and local festivals.

Marie Delprat

Marie Delprat is a musician whose work merges sound, visual arts, and performance. She explores the interaction between digital and analog media. Collaborating with other artists from different backgrounds and cultures is central in her work.

Recent Projects include Dull Star Doll (2025) Live set with her duo Marytronics (Marie Delprat + Masha Ten), and Ethereal Realms – all fiction is metaphor (2024): A performance exploring a persona she develops and interacts with on stage. 

Marie became an associate artist at Dampfzentrale (Bern) in 2023 and has been part of the Friendly Take Over program organized by Gare du Nord (Basel) between 2022 until 2025.

She is currently part of the SHAPE+, European platform for innovative music and AV art.

She has been invited by several venues and festivals such as SONICA (Glasgow, UK), La Cité (Lausanne, CH), O.Festival (Rotterdam, NL), La Muse en Circuit (Paris, FR), Rêves électroniques – CESARE (Reims, FR), Night Air (Kortrijk, BE), Sonic Matter (Zürich, CH), Chiasso means Noise (Chiasso, CH), Kaserne (Basel, CH), Sonic Mountains – Dampfzentrale (Bern, CH).

Joshua Ongcol

Joshua Ongcol (he/they), also known as Joshee, is a 0.5 generation immigrant, queer, Filipinx dance artist, massage therapist, choreographer, teacher and community organizer based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of so-called Vancouver, BC. His work catalyzed from his interest in the ways tenderness manifests in the body and its receptivity to deep connection, wisdom and transformation. With this he centers movement as a medium for healing, resilience, and connection, often unraveling narratives of the Filipino(x) diaspora through the lenses of queerness, spirituality, cultural continuity, and collective memory.

Joshua is also deeply committed to community-building. Since 2022, he has taught and facilitated the Q7 House Sessions, a free weekly gathering where dancers and DJs of all backgrounds come together to share in the culture of house music and dance. These sessions reflect his values of accessibility, reciprocity, and the joy of collective practice.

Born in Dubai and raised in Canada, Joshua found dance out of necessity — a space where grief could transmute and stories could unravel. With roots in house, ballroom, and waacking, alongside contemporary dance training, his practice has become an intersection of street, club and contemporary dance practices, somatic exploration, and his ancestral traditions.