Listen to a sample of the music compositions used in Poutiatine’s pedagogy and repertoire.

Music choices for class:  Below is a sample of music accompaniment for class, reconstructed in 2017 from  Poutiatine’s handwritten musical scores (1953/1964) and performed by Maltese pianist Erika Gialanze. The extracts from the scores and recordings of the music reconstructions indicate an approximate tempo for the performance of the exercises. They reflect Poutiatine’s choices for her class choreography, drawing upon her knowledge of the influences in pedagogy at the Imperial Ballet School through her studies with Lubov Egorova in Paris (1921-1926). 

The three examples below can be listened to in conjunction with the article ‘In Pursuit of ‘Intangible’ Histories: Nathalie Poutiatine’s Art of Teaching Ballet‘ published in Treasures of Malta (December 2023).

Frappés music used for Tendus

Simple Changements

Assemblés

Music for Repertoire: Below is a sample of musical choices used in Poutiatine’s dance concerts, in chronological order as they appear in the productions between 1930 and 1979.

• Hungarian Dance (1930) music by Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
• December Fantasy (1934) music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
• Les Rose du Sud (1937) music by Johann Strauss (1825 – 1899)
• Eighteenth Century Dresden Statuettes – Minuet by Ignacy Jan Paderewksi (1860 – 1941)
• Deux Valses (1946): ‘Valse Sentimental’ music by Oscar Strauss (1870 – 1954);
• ‘Valse Viennoise’ (1946) music by Rudolf Siecynski (1879 – 1952)
• A Christmas Tale (1946) music by Vladimir Rebikov (1866 – 1920)