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This chapter focuses on Crystal Pite’s 2017 work for The Royal Ballet, Flight Pattern, analyzing its perceptual properties and narrative and symbolic elements as integrated elements in the audience’s experience, and supporting this discussion on ideas from theories of embodied cognition. The chapter argues first that the emotional power of the work as perceived by the audience is emergent from these perceptual properties—illustrating this through the analysis of movement qualities, music-movement relationships, and use of space—and, second, that an embodied cognition approach is necessary to understand the audience’s complex emotional experience. Finally, through the analysis of Pite’s work as situated within the programming of the Royal Opera House, the chapter argues that her work revitalizes ballet in relation to its content-form complex, its aesthetic aspects, and its potential to refer emotionally to current world issues. |
