Courtesy: PNB, PNB dancers

Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields is a beautiful rendering of 18th- and 19th-century American hymns and Shaker songs to free-wheeling, almost-ethereal phrases. Dancers move in loose, open shirts and pants or mid-calf length skirts performing breathy trios.

Dylan Wald has come to be identified with Jessica Lang’s The Calling, and I’ve seen him perform it a number of times. The long, flowing skirt is both costume and prompt (at certain points, he kicks material back into a slow arabesque) and accentuates his articulate upper back and strong limbs. In each performance, he’s mesmerizing.

The Season’s Canon by Crystal Pite is the real star of this program. Pite is a sungularly impressive choreographer. She’s wildly creative and the dancers seem to inhabit every role they’re given. Pite’s dance is always believable and compelling.

In a tight ensemble, the company’s a pulsing hoard, pulling away from each other like taffy. In unison or in sequential phrasing, the dancers maintain dynamic tension—as powerful as any Béjart piece. Sometimes it’s just all limbs.

Shout out to Angelica Generosa, James Kirby Rogers, Lucien Postlewaite, Clara Ruf Maldonado, and Amanda Morgan. Without a predictable move in sight, they embody Pite’s work, making it look candid and fresh, which, of course, it is.