During the company’s annual City Center season, Ms. Green has intensified that pull with a new level of confidence, blossoming in new and classic works. Playing a witness figure, she was a standout in Donald Byrd’s “Greenwood,” a premiere about the Tulsa massacre of 1921. “I loved her in ‘Greenwood,’” said Judith Jamison, Ailey’s artistic director emerita. “That she held that stage that long?”

“She was like a bulwark,” Ms. Jamison added. “She was like the ship.”

It has also been revealing to see Ms. Green in older works like “Memoria,” which Ailey choreographed after the death of a friend. Moving from a place of sorrow to one of joy, Ms. Green was almost a spirit — ethereal and stately — as she floated inside Keith Jarrett’s shimmering score.

“She really seems to be in command of her instrument in a way that she hit another level,” Robert Battle, the company’s artistic director, said. “It’s like when someone plays a wind instrument and takes it to a place where there’s just enough air to be in hearing range without shouting each note.”

Ms. Green, who turns 30 the day after Christmas, was part of a group of nine dancers who Mr. Battle hired when he became artistic director in 2011. At the time she was a member of the second company, Ailey II.