The Exponential Festival Presents: M[xx]: The Dignity Project

The Exponential Festival presents M[xx]: The Dignity Project by Deepa Purohit

M[xx]: The Dignity Project, a performance collage: 

A. wants a baby. B. wants an abortion. The teenagers squiggle. Middle-aged women sweat. 
Medical machinery shifts. The female (xx) body moves from birth to death.
The grandmas go wild. The One decides it's time for flight.

Where is the dignity in it all?

M[xx]: The Dignity Project was originally commissioned by:

The Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat
Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO
in collaboration with The Greenfield Foundation.​

Written, directed and produced by Deepa Purohit
Associate Director: Mahima Saigal  
Choreography: Rohan Bhargava
Set Design: Miranda DeRossi
Sound/Music Direction: Sara Haider
Lighting Design: WhimZee Hanna
Sound Design: Joshua Kobak
Installation Design: Riti Sachdeva 
Costume: Miriam Cortes
Dramaturgy: Amrita Ramanan 
Stage Management: Raina Lawrence 
Line Producer: Blaise Ylianna Hewlett
Image credit: Gavin Fernandes
Cast to be announced

Find them: @deepa.purohit deepapurohit.com

M[xx]: The Dignity Project is a performance piece that weaves the experiences of intergenerational American women of the South Asian diaspora, from menses to death through sketches, scenes, songs, movement, tableaux, and standalone installations.  

M[xx] asks: How do/can/will women live, age and die with dignity as their bodies navigate medical and aging care systems that are built on a key tenet: to prolong life?​​​

M[xx]: The Dignity Project is a participant in New Georges’ Supported Productions program, developed with support from The Asian Women's Giving Circle, New Dramatists, the 2027 cell theatre residency, & Bechdel Project's Pilot program: Feminism is for Everybody Cooperative Cohort.

Runtime: 90 min

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org