Oct.
2025
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Luanda Casella, Pablo Casella & ntgent
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Pablo Casella
Composer, song-writer and multi-instrumentalist. His ear for harmonies is unique in contemporary music. With skills and virtuosity, Casella knows how to paint landscapes through sound, emotions through melody, power through rhythm.
In the theatre scene Casella is active as a soundtrack composer, producer and live musician; he contributed to Antigone in The Amazon (Milo Rau/NTGent/MST), Ferox Tempus, KillJoy Quiz and Elektra Unbound (Luanda Casella & NTGent) and BAM!, Saperlipopette, LOS (Ultima-Thule). He is currently touring internationally with Antigone in the Amazon, having already played in ten different countries and in renowned performing arts festivals, such as Vienna Festival and Festival d’Avignon.
Pablo Casella has also been part of several music projects, playing in festivals such as Dour, Les Ardentes, Dranouter, Gent Jazz and Jazz Middelheim. With his own band, Little Dots, he’s released two albums with V2 records (2014 and 2018), to which he composed, arranged and co-produced. Little Dots was a resident group at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. Their tours included support acts for Gabriel Rios and Hooverphonic, in venues such as AB (Brussels), De Roma (Antwerpen) and Paradiso (Amsterdam), and festivals such as Gent Jazz and Eurosonic.
In the press
Lua's language is chillingly vivid. Carried by the pulse of Pablo's composition, they delve into the shame and violence of the past. Intense. Even before seeing the laser show (...) the entire theatre is used to create an impressive shield between the creators and their personal history (...) Heartbreaking
, De Morgen (BE), Read the article'Elektra Unbound is a quite brilliant pastiche, full of clever humour and double entendres (...) With her ultratight text, Casella not only exposes the artists' hidden hunger for power and their addiction to human suffering, she also weaves a larger social critique
, De Standaard (BE), Read the articleNot one video that doesn't hit the mark in 'Antigone in the Amazon'. Not one word that doesn't reinforce the images. Not one movement on stage that doesn't resonate with the images. The realisation sets in that theatre, when it moves so far out of its comfort zone, makes us experience and understand something so much bigger than itself
Le Monde (FR)