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Flight Pattern – Crystal Pite (Kristen McNally, Marcelino Sambé; The Royal Ballet)
12019-11-26T17:23:49-05:00Paul G. Johnstone92a8e63bf909f632c1183850db9a324115db2f5731Kristen McNally and Marcelino Sambé in Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern. Subscribe to our channel and find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk Canadian ...plain2019-11-26T17:23:49-05:00YouTubeRoyal Opera House2019-05-24T10:54:51.000ZGrNfZ6pCn9MPaul G. Johnstone92a8e63bf909f632c1183850db9a324115db2f5
I would like to contribute the following video of a ballet at the Royal Ballet, called Flight Pattern. Flight Pattern is a modern ballet created by the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite for the Royal Ballet in 2017. The music is written by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and is usually associated with themes like the Holocaust.
Flight Pattern touches particularly upon the modern issue of immigration and the idea of loss of home, exile, loved family members, etc. Within the ballet, a group of 36 dancers, dancing together, evoke a community of immigrants and through their movements portray collective feelings of suffering and anguish. This stands in stark contrast to a pas-de-deux within the ballet which is shown in this video. In this pas-de-deux, a man and woman seemingly have lost their child, presumably as a result of their situation. The dancers portray their individual experience of loss through their dancing and provide another, more personal perspective into some of the hardships that are involved in the loss of home.