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==Development==
[[Image:Crystal Pite.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=See caption|[[Crystal Pite]],
The Royal Ballet commissioned what would become ''Flight Pattern'' in 2014, which was Pite's first piece for the company.<ref name=Winship />{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|p=462}} While listening to possible music selections, focusing on [[contemporary classical music]], she was thinking about the ongoing [[2015 European migrant crisis|European migrant crisis]].<ref name="Monahan 2017">{{Cite news |last=Monahan |first=Mark |date=2017-03-14 |title=Choreographer Crystal Pite: 'I'm not putting this on stage as a political act' |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/choreographer-crystal-pite-creative-young-women-often-have-get/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007170718/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/choreographer-crystal-pite-creative-young-women-often-have-get/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She chose to choreograph to the first movement of [[Henryk Górecki]]'s [[Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)|Symphony No.3]], also known as the ''Symphony of Sorrowful Songs''. Pite associated the music with the migrant crisis, for which she was "disappointed" with the international response, and on choreographing a ballet about the crisis, she said it was her "way of coping with the world at the moment".<ref name=Winship/><ref name=Monahan>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/crystal-pites-flight-pattern-royal-ballet-covent-garden-review/|title=Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern is an emotional odyssey that passes in the blink of an eye - Royal Ballet mixed bill, review|newspaper=The Telegraph|last=Monahan|first=Mark|date=17 March 2017|access-date=2023-04-10|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027184759/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/crystal-pites-flight-pattern-royal-ballet-covent-garden-review/|url-status=live}}</ref> The theme and music were selected approximately one and a half years before the first rehearsal and was the starting point for Pite's creative process.{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|pp=462, 464}}
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