Locus of Control
Directed by award-winning performing artist, Kat Evasco, the show explores the lives of Filipino immigrants in America, taking you through Bayani’s hip-hop inspired youth, club-going college days, and turbulent adulthood. Locus of Control navigates his experience dealing with race, mental health, addiction, and his status as the first American-born child in his family. Utilizing poetry, storytelling, music, and multimedia, Bayani pieces together the different threads of his life while struggling to make sense of Walter Benjamin’s notion of redeeming the past in present time.
Reviewers
“An internationally known poet, he gives a riveting performance. … [A] a fine spoken word performer at the Top of His Game.”
“As a poet, writer and performer, Jason Bayani pontificates his experiences into layered reflection of both regret and hope… A full circle experience leaves the audience wondering what our collective individual chapters may hold.”
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NBC Bay Area
“Bayani pieces together the story of the latest and most robust wave of migrants to come from the Philippines and contemplates what this identity has become in America and what it will become in the future.”
HYPHEN
“Bayani’s show offers us poems-in-the-flesh, an expertly choreographed orchestration of a poetics that’s focused on the physical and mental health of one’s body, the intersectional identity of one’s body, and the way in which histories converge at those intersections.”
Asian American Press
“He can be humorous and charming while moving you through some difficult and deeply personal moments. It’s very powerful, moving work and we can’t wait to see what he does with a full-length show.”
