With Third Symphony The Hamburg Ballet Makes Sense Of Mahler

UPDATE: Both performances have been canceled due to an electrical fire that damaged the theater’s operational and mechanical equipment. Ticket holders will be contacted by a box office representative.

The dance is full of images of abstract concepts: the beauty of nature, of melancholy, of angels, of the transience of love. In the sixth movement, for instance, a man lifting a woman evokes the inverse image—man uplifted by the ideal of love—which nonetheless appears as a mirage, here today, gone today, the world’s most gorgeous lie.

Wed-Thu 2/19-2/20, 7:30 PM Harris Theater 205 E. Randolph 312-334-7777harristheaterchicago.org $40-$95