Culture
Our pick of Belgium’s best activities – online and off – for the coming two weeks
No one throws a party like Tomorrowland, and why should this New Year’s Eve be any different? The digital celebration is set to ring in the New Year in 193 countries – including this one, natch. Live performances, fireworks and fantastical animations envelope you in the action for an evening that is
almost as good as the real thing.
31 December 20.00-3.00
Ballet Vlaanderen is giving free access to its popular annual Choreolab, wherein dancers become choreographers. Nine of them have choreographed pieces for their fellow dancers, but, while they usually have carte blanche to create whatever they want, this year corona has imposed a few rules: No more than five dancers onstage, and none of them may touch each other. See what these incredibly talented artists have come up with live via Facebook.
Culture
Our pick of Belgium’s best activities – online and off – for the coming week
The Triforium Art Gallery at the Solvay Library hosts the sublime work of Belgian fashion and fine art photographer Geert De Taeye. His highly stylised photographs look like paintings, sometimes recalling a 17th-century Pieta, other times a 1940s Edward Hopper. This exhibition,
Staring Into the Middle Distance: The Sound of Silence, groups images that were either made specifically in response to the coronavirus crisis or that reflect its effect on certain themes close to De Taeye: The death of arts, the abandonment of the feast.