HIGH START VIRAL SPORT FAD HISTORICAL tableau BECOME PARTY POSITION FROZEN FRIEND WRITER GROUPING
A group of Florida ___ schoolers made the first ___ Challenge video and they ___ a movement that went ___, with pop music groups, ___ teams and politicians jumping ___ to make videos of ___ own.
Like most internet ___, the Mannequin Challenge’s moment ___ likely be brief. However, ___ this case, there’s some ___ precedent. It was called ___ vivant (literally, “living picture”). ___ technique has its roots ___ medieval drama, but it ___ a fashionable Victorian-era dinner ___ game. People would select ___ famous scene from history ___ literature or art and ___ themselves in that scene, ___, for their guests and ___ to observe.
One fashion ___ said “In the production ___ tableaux, the greatest attention ___ be paid to the ___ of figures and the harmony of colours. When they are animated and controlled by a fine taste, their effect is charming.” The tableau’s combination of animation and control, its carefully choreographed suspension of movement, illustrates the appeal of the Mannequin Challenge.
Queen Victoria loved this entertainment. In an 1852 pencil sketch, she drew her six children in a tableau of John Milton’s “L'Allegro” that they performed for her husband’s 33rd birthday. “Albert was delighted and could not imagine how it had been so well arranged,” she wrote in her journal.
Part of the joy in producing a tableau vivant was watching the audience’s recognition and reaction. I believe that if Queen Victoria had owned an iPhone, she would have filmed the moment and shared it on Instagram for the world to see.
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Have fun....and take care! 257 JUN-B-2017
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Have fun....and take care! 257 JUN-B-2017
