Tableau Frozen Fun!

Warm-ups FREEZE INSTANT STATUE

Tableau … What is that? A widely used artistic mode that is often simply described as a ‘living picture’. A group uses their bodies in poses to represent a scene or an idea. Tableaus can be used in many different ways: to describe a scene, to act on a theme or to even draw attention to a scene. There is even an example of tableau being used on film.

A FROZEN MOMENT IN TIME Statue tableau – Forming an image with your bodies, but all people are connected in some way, as if formed out of one lump of clay or all carved out of one rock. PICTURE TABLEAU – Like any photograph, where the people are not necessarily physically connected but are all seen though the same camera lens.

Main Things to Remember Levels are important. Have a point of focus. Every addition to the scene needs to make sense within the story you are trying to tell. Make your pose count.

Levels

Point of Focus

Additions Make Sense

Dynamic Poses

Now it’s our turn! We are going to try to do tableau ourselves! One by one, students are going to be called up to add to a scene being created. Everyone will be asked to add something to the scene. If we don’t have ideas we will discuss them as a group. Try to remember our four most important things: levels, focus, clarity, and dynamics.