PIA DEL NORTE
RECITAL - ROP SOM GÅR I ARV
Long term multi-performance
Recital - rop som går i arv was born in the meeting between the poetry in flamenco, sketching, music and dance. Now it all takes form as a book, an up and coming album, a work for stage and examining forms for the forms for flamencosong.
Creative team:
Eva Möller - recitation, translation
Annika Heed - livesketching, artwork
Erik Steen - guitar, composition
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - dance, choreography
Production:
LP Flamenco
PRODUCTIONS AND PROJECTS
Producers are kindly directed to LP Flamenco on Scenkonstportalen
Cutting edge experimental concepts and tradition combined in one.
Below you can read about the productions Pia is engaged in.
"And here was the dancer Pia Pohjakallio, who physically illustrated what flamenco is all about..."
Susanne Holmlund -
review in Sundsvalls Tidning
Pia performs on a freelance basis in a number of different constilations, international productions and solo soundwork.
CARMEN RECYCLED
A colourful contemporary take on Carmen leaning on designer and climate activist Vivienne Westwoods famous words: When in doubt, Overdress
Creative team:
Carina Stenberg - vocals
Afra Rubino - guitar, vocals
Kai Sundquist - woodwinds
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - dance
Maria Magdolna Beky Winnerstam - direction
Jonathan Sandberg - sound/touring tech
Vilhelm Montan Lindberg - lightdesign
Alicia Harris - costume
Irene Pelayo Lind - outer eye/gender expert
Photo: Amanda Lindgren
Production:
LP Flamenco from Sep 2021
TRIO DEL NORTE
Costura del Corazon
Fiery temperament, heartwarming tones and exiting rhythms fill the air when Trio del Norte brings "Costura del Corazon" to the stage. There is powerful flamenco dance, beautiful guitar and woodwind instruments that at times take on the flamencosong-melodies, at times get inspired by the jazzy "Afro Blu" or Manuel de Fallas "Fuego Fatuo".
Trio del Norte is something both for the craving musiclovers as those who long for the volantes and castanets. The dance is at times a visual phenomena, at times the percussionist, the roles between solists and those accompanying are sewn together and ever-changing between the members.
Creative team:
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - dance
Erik Steen - guitar
Kai Sundquist - woodwinds
Production:
LP Flamenco
EL TIEMPO FLAMENCO
Timetravel 100 years and back in the world of flamenco!
El Tiempo Flamenco is a dance and music concert inspired by flamencos varied roads through time. From the oldest flamenco songs to the latest influences in this artforms soulful presence and sparkly rhythms.
We navigate from the first beats on the anvil that accompanied the song, let ourselves be captivated by some chosen historical quotes, to land in our contemporary arrangements.
Creative team:
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio
Erik Steen
Gustavo Rey
Production:
LP Flamenco
FLAMENCO DE LOS NIÑOS
The story of belonging and of being left out
A total flamenco experience where the children meet flamencos' colorful expression, suggestive dramatics and rhythms in the dance, vocals and the guitar. A story abut being different, of being left out of the game and about being seen. For everyone regardless of native language!
Flamenco de los Niños is a show for children of all ages and has since it's premiere in 2011 been performed more than 300 times.
Creative team:
Josefine Chiacchiero
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio
Milla Strandberg
Zoran Dokic
Production:
Compaso Flamenco, LP Flamenco, Cinco Espadas, Vokalstudion
ORIGEN
The sharp tones of the flamenco guitar sound over the mountain ridge, the streaming water listens to the song's deep timbre. What are origins?
The question of what origins can be is central in this poetic flamencoshow. The song, music and dance are intertwined with moving images from the awardwinning music documentary ”Origins – a window towards voices” (by Ellen Pontara and Roland Pantze).
Creative team:
Aire de Vida:
Ellen Pontara (vocals)
Per Lenner (guitar)
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio (dans)
& Kai Sundquist (winds)
Production:
Friteatern & LP Flamenco
ECHO
Freely after the Greek drama about Eco, the nymph possesing the gifts of speach and music.
Premiered in Gustav Adolf church in Sundsvall in 2021, this piece takes on specific spaces, preferrably with long ecoing architecture.
Creative team:
Afra Rubino - guitar, vocals
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - dance
Photo: Amanda Lindgren
Production:
LP Flamenco/Afra Rubino
¡RÅ!
Archaic Finnish song meets flamencodance
A surprisingly obvious meeting of two direct, strong expressions with their roots in folkloric traditions.
¡RÅ! is a journey through womens lives. There are moments of happiness, freedom, frustation and melancholy, captivating incantations and spells, vulnerable, tender singing and susceptible dance as beautiful as they can be.
Vocals, composition:
Anna Fält
Dance, choreography:
Pia Pohjakallio
Light design:
Madeleine Lind Hoppe
Production:
Anna Fält/LP Flamenco
4 VINDARS HUS/4 TUULEN TALO
Musictheatre based on ancient but always relevant folktales from around the world
This school- and family production brings together a special trio consisting of double base, vocals and percussive dance. Stories from around the world told to the audiences through music and dance touch on important themes about the environment, solving conflicts, generosity and mastering your greatest fears. The house of 4 winds can be performed in Swedish or Finnish!
Creative team:
Lauri Antila (double base)
Anna Fält (vocals)
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio (dans)
Production:
Lauri Antila, Anna Fält & LP Flamenco
TUUT, PLING, TA-RIA TAKATA
A musical journey through both laughter-inducing as serious moments full of presence, human warmth and contact.
Tuut, pling, ta-ria takata is an interactive, acoustic show for children. The audience gets to listen to new compositions of the living guitar legend Eva Möller together with the rock n roll saxofonist Kai Sundquist and flamencoqueen Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio.
During the ride the children are turned into palmeros, clappers, and return home with 12-beats in their bags!
Creative team:
Eva Möller - guitar, vocals etc
Kai Sundquist - woodwinds
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio - dance
Production:
LP Flamenco
LATIDO: tikka - rappu - tori
A quadrilogy of reflections upon pulse in its organic, digital and social structures.
LATIDO is a continuous process seeking time and space. It consists of three independent, site specific, investigating parts both for audiences and specific spaces that lead to a conclusive work for stage.
A multidisciplinary meeting of flamenco schooled bodies, electroacoustic and acoustic soundscapes and space.
Creative team:
Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio
Per Lenner
Mariano Cruceta
Tina Eriksson Fredriksson
Production:
LP Flamenco