Yasu Ishida, Master of Fine Arts in Theatre for Young Audiences, is an award-winning magician, director and storyteller. He beautifully imbues the essence of traditional Japanese culture into his magic and storytelling. Yasu has enthralled audiences all over the United States, including performances at Disney Summer Stage Kids in New York and the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., the world’s largest festival of Japanese culture outside of Japan. He was a nominee for the 2013 RAW Honolulu Performing Artist of the Year, and the American Alliance for Theatre & Education awarded his show with a 2014 Elizabeth and Don Doyle fellowship.
yasutheatre@gmail.com
https://www.yasutheatre.com
1425 Teague Road,, APT 108, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
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8087779193
*Virtual Program Option is available. Yasu has been working with 55 schools and libraries in more than 8 states for young audiences this summer. (https://youtu.be/a2A2yvLCqeY)
Yasu’s Origami workshop enhances global understanding of culture through art of paper folding. At the beginning of the class, Yasu will do a short presentation of stories using Origami as storytelling tools. And then students get to learn about history and geography through Origami at the beginning of class followed by hands-on origami activities. Students get to make their own origami. Connected to social studies and theatre
arts standards.
Yasu Ishida
yasutheatre@gmail.com
All year around
All day
Class room, art room, or library
$1250 for one day flat fee, can teach 4-5 classes, can add performances with $300 more. Fee includes origami papers.
SL2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including
visually, quantitatively, and orally. In my workshop, I demonstrate Story-gami, which Is
telling a story as a paper’s shape changes as the story goes. For students, they get to learn
how to integrate information orally and visually and connect them.
SL.2.4 Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive
details, speaking audibly in coherent and complete sentences. Students can learn through
my Story-gami, how to develop and apply their storytelling skills at home and also their
classroom.
NC.3.G.1 Identify the attributes of two dimensional shapes (circle, square, rectangle,
triangle, oval, rhombus). In learning Story-gami’s shapes, students get to learn
characteristics and attributes of two dimensional shapes
From World Languages:
NL.CLL.3.1 Use single words and simple, memorized phrases in presentations to identify the
names of people, places, and things. I teach Japanese words in the classroom when I
introduce Origami and meaning behind of the construction of the word. For example, Ori-fold
and Gami-paper.
From Social Studies
2.G.1.2 Interpret the meaning of symbols and the location of physical and human features
on a map (cities, railroads, highways, countries, continents, oceans, etc.), When I introduce
where Origami culture came from, I talk about Asian continent on map and globe and how
geography plays an important role in culture forming and passing it through geography
locations.
From Arts Education Standards,
2.CX.1.1
Exemplify visual arts representing the heritage, customs, and traditions of various cultures.
Students learn how Origami is connected to Japanese culture.
If a program is cancelled because of inclement weather. It will be rescheduled for a mutually agreeable future date. And if the show is cancelled after the contract has been signed, the artist requires 50% of the fee.