Study Break: Tableaux Vivants and the Pageant of the Masters
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010I am a huge fan of the dramatic technique tableaux vivants, or living pictures, in which people pose, frozen. Traditionally, they do so to replicate a famous painting or statue, but, as I discussed in my first book, it’s also an amazing classroom technique by which students create and then animate frozen statues to explore and reveal their content understanding.
But nobody, I mean nobody, does tableau work like the folks at the Pageant of the Masters. Take a look: