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Cast of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, by Tchaikovsky, in a tableau vivant, in 1890

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.

Images for kids

  • Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 60006559 Tableau vivant voorstellende de Goudd

    Tableau vivant, about gold mining, 1892

  • Estatua viva junto a la catedral -pza Armas Stgo -f03-A

    A living statue is the modern version of a tableau vivant. This one is in Santiago de Chile

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tableau vivant para niños

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