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==Themes and analysis==
[[File:Wien - Westbahnhof, Migranten am 5 Sep 2015.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|alt=A photograph of a group of refugees standing on a train station platform|Refugees travellling, the theme of the ballet, here waiting at a train station in Vienna]]
The [[Theme (narrative)|theme]] of ''Flight Patterns'' is the plight of displaced persons as they travel between locations.{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|pp=461-462}}{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=309}} While getting inspiration from conflicts from the past century, particularly the influx of refugees to Europe during the 2010s, it did not place its dancers in a specific time or ___location. Instead, the dancers are an allegory for the experience of displaced persons.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|pp=301, 304}}{{sfn|Abdo|Attia|Amin|2023|p=83}} The subject matter is conventional for dance pieces in the [[Western world]], showcasing people outside of the hierarchies of power as performers dancing in a stylized manner. The uniformity of the grey costumes evoked a setting of a prison or battlefield, with the dancers under the control of a more powerful entity,{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=307}} even though a specific antagonist is not named or explored in the narrative.{{sfn|Abdo|Attia|Amin|2023|p=82}} By not placing the piece narratively in a specific historical setting, the piece avoided themes on the racialization of refugees or the relationship between colonialization and displaced persons.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=310}}
The narrative is [[Nonlinear narrative|non-linear]], particularly in the first part of the piece, where multiple story arcs are shown simultaneously on stage. Narratives include looking for people in a queue, rocking a baby, and bodies left behind as the crowd moves to a new ___location.{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|p=467}} In some sections, dancers perform together, representing refugees as a single body of people moving as a group.{{sfn|Abdo|Attia|Amin|2023|p=82}}{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=305}} A motif in the work is dancers with outstretched arms, suggesting they have reached their physical limitations.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=306}}
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