Wheeldon’s “Mercurial Manoeuvres” (2000), created to the lento movement of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, featured former City Ballet principals Robbie Fairchild and Lauren Lovette creating an aura of longing, along with a bounty of pirouettes, with trumpeter Manuel Blanco and pianist Lilit Grygoryan doing solo musical honors.

The pair also proved potent in Wheeldon’s duet from his 2002 “Carousel (a Dance).” Distilling Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 classic musical to a pair of tunes, “The Carousel Waltz” and “If I Loved You,” the work evoked the “dream ballets” that populated that era’s musicals.

Lovette, her hair loose and flowing, and Fairchild, bedecked in a red Billy Bigelow-type bandana (costumes courtesy of San Francisco Ballet), injected the dance, an impressionistic study of beauty, with romance and drama, beginning with cautious caresses and building to audacious lifts, tosses and, yes, swoony waltz moves. Then, the ever canny Wheeldon, had the couple sit and face the orchestra, drinking in the rich melodies and fine playing, also showcasing de la Parra’s accomplished musicianship. (That they had known each other for years was evident: After Wheeldon left City Ballet in 2007 and founded his own troupe, Morphoses, and she had her own ensemble, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas—POA—the two groups often performed together.)

Moving from Wheeldon’s choreography to the work of Paul McGill, a Broadway actor and choreographer, his latest, “Acts 9:18,” based on the New Testament verse of the same name, made the iconic Adagio sostenuto movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2—again adroitly performed by Grygoryan—a glimpse into a dream. Phelan, entering the stage walking backwards, meets Rudisin before letting her hair down, the action a prelude to executing the swiftest of bourrées.

Their simple flesh-colored costumes, adorned with sequined hearts (aortic valves and all), were complemented by unison moves, precise and buoyant, which gave momentum to the work that, this writer was told, was put together in four days.