Tableau vivant

A tableau vivant is when people pose and make the scene look like the one in a picture. People in a tableau vivant don't move or speak. The name comes from Fren

Tableau vivant
Postcard with Olga Desmond Schönheitsabende
Cast of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, by Tchaikovsky, in a tableau vivant, in 1890
Tableau vivant, about gold mining, 1892
A living statue is the modern version of a tableau vivant. This one is in Santiago de Chile

A tableau vivant is when people pose and make the scene look like the one in a picture. People in a tableau vivant don't move or speak. The name comes from French, and translates as "living picture". The plural is tableaux vivants.

In Europe, tableaux vivants became popular towards the end of the 19th century. Sometimes, there was even music. Jean Sibelius composed his work Finlandia (1900) for a sequence of tableaux vivants.

At the beginning of the 20th century, they became notorious, because usually naked women would present them in revue theatres. The dancer Olga Desmond became well-known because of her posing naked in revues at the beginning of the 20th century.

There was also a type of tableau used in the professional theatre. It took advantage of a special case in law:[1] Nudity could be shown as long as the actors did not move. Tableaux featured poses plastiques ('flexible poses') by models, who were almost nude. This provided a form of erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print.

References

  1. ↑ "The Windmill Theatre, Great Windmill Street, London, W.1". Arthur Lloyd. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

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