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''Flight Pattern'' was revived in May 2019, with McNally and Sambé reprising their roles. It was performed as the third act in a triple bill, succeeding the choreographer [[Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui]]'s ''Medusa'' and Wheeldon's ''Within the Golden Hour''.<ref name="Winship 2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/may/09/royal-ballet-within-the-golden-hour-medusa-flight-pattern-review-royal-opera-house|title=Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern review – monsters and melancholy|newspaper=The Guardian|last=Winship|first=Lyndsey|date=9 May 2019|access-date=2023-04-10|archive-date=27 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827172443/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/may/09/royal-ballet-within-the-golden-hour-medusa-flight-pattern-review-royal-opera-house|url-status=live}}</ref> A performance was recorded and published on the Royal Ballet website, and available for purchase until December 2020.<ref name="OBrien" />
 
After finishing choreographing ''Flight Pattern'', Pite was invited by [[Kevin O'Hare]], the director of the Royal Ballet, to choreograph other new works for the company. Instead, Pite stated that she wanted to extend ''Flight Pattern'' by choreographing to the rest of Górecki's symphony.<ref name="Lister">{{Cite news |last=Lister |first=Kate |date=2022-10-18 |title=Crystal Pite: 'There's an optimism in gathering together and creating something' |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/culture/crystal-pite-interview-b2202191.html |access-date=2023-04-09 |archive-date=2 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102072843/https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/culture/crystal-pite-interview-b2202191.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Swain 2022">{{Cite news |last=Swain |first=Marianka |date=2022-10-07 |title=Royal Ballet's Crystal Pite: ‘Through dance, I’m able to express the inexpressible’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/royal-ballets-crystal-pite-creating-dance-trying-express-inexpressible/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Production of the piece was delayed due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and subsequent lockdowns.<ref name="Swain 2022" /> In 2022, this extended work premiered as ''Light of Passage'', with ''Flight Pattern'' incorporated as the first part of the ballet. This was Pite's first full-length work for Thethe Royal Ballet.<ref name=Watts />
 
==Themes and analysis==