create two opposing Tableaus

Embodied Reading Response: Using Tableau to represent Yummy

For this assignment, you will read Yummy and create two opposing Tableaus. A tableau is a “living picture” created when actors use their bodies to represent a scene, moment, or concept. However, in tableau, the actors are frozen in a scene, creating a still image. The ideas are conveyed through a combination of poses, expressions, gestures, background, props, etc… rather than spoken words or movement.

1. Read Yummy. Takes notes, What do you notice? What social and political issues stand out to you?
2. Choose a significant moment from Yummy and follow the steps to portray that moment through a tableau
3. If necessary, recruit some friends, family, colleagues to help you create a tableau, or frozen scene, of your “illustration” or representation from the book. You can also work alone. Remember, the images will be posted on a discussion board for grading and to engage peers in a conversation about the text.
4. Create First image: Illustrate the moment using your body. In other words, think about how you can situate your body to “act out” the scene. Freeze into position (That’s the tableau). Consider setting, facial expressions, body language, actor interactions…
5. Capture: Have someone take a photograph of the tableau.
6. Second image: Now reimagine that moment and create an “ideal image” or what you would like the reality to be. This a “projected possibility” of that moment from the book.
7. Have someone take a second photograph of the tableau.
8. Post the pictures on the discussion board, labeling each.
9. Discuss your tableaus- see submission criteria and rubric below.

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Note 2: Make sure your actors are aware that you are posting this picture in an online class. Others will see it. If your actors don’t want their faces to appear, there are clever ways to take the photos to hide identities. http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Submission

• Post both pictures as jpgs. Make sure they are visible in the post.
• Give both of your scenes a title (creative, thought-provoking, original)
• Discuss. What did you choose to highlight with your tableau (content, character, theme, other)
  • How did you situate your body/bodies to represent your focus? Did you attend to facial expression, gesture, costume, etc?
  • Compare your creation of the tableau to your first reading of Yummy. What does it make you think about? How does representing a moment with your body help you think differently about the text? What did the second image or “projected possibility” make you think about?
  • Add your final thoughts about Yummy overall.