Review of the New York City Ballet's summer season at New York State Theater, opening on April 30, 2002. The repertoire, which included ballets made under the auspices of the company's Diamond Project, included George Balanchine's Stravinsky violin concerto, Peter Martins's Bach concerto V and The infernal machine, Mauro Bigonzetti's Vespro, Albert Evans's Haiku, Stephen Baynes's Twilight courante, Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses, Melissa Barak's If by chance, and Miriam Mahdaviani's In the mi(d)st.