MOVEMENT — WITH OTHERS (M — WO) is a New York City-based multidisciplinary collaborative founded by Jacob T. Middleton and Andrew Wojtal. The practice explores the relationship between architecture and dance — treating space as something performed as much as built, focusing on how bodies, materials, and structures organize movement over time.

Through installations, performances, spatial studies, and built interventions, M — WO investigates how architectural systems and choreographic thinking can inform one another. Our projects treat architecture as a form of staging and choreography as a method of spatial design, producing environments where construction, movement, and perception unfold together.

Working across scales, the office develops projects that foreground process, sequence, and the dynamics of collective labor.

JACOB T. MIDDLETON
AIA, NCARB

Jacob is a New York City–based architect and scenic designer working across architecture, performance, and media. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and studied Design for Stage and Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture.

His work approaches architecture as something to be staged, performed, and occasionally misbehaved. Drawing on low culture, the tacky, and the unashamed, he uses exaggeration, artifice, and queerness to explore how space can bend, twist, and resist expectation. Familiar formats — sets, stages, interiors — are treated less as fixed types and more as material to be stretched and pushed off-script. The result is work that moves between convincing and artificial, immersive and self-aware.

His scenic design work has been Emmy-nominated and recognized with multiple awards, including national and international Set of the Year Broadcast Production Awards. His work and research have been featured by Columbia University, The Ohio State University, the University of Houston, and Texas Architect Magazine, among others.

ANDREW WOJTAL

Andrew is a choreographer and interdisciplinary dance artist whose work bridges concert dance, theater, and commercial performance. His choreography has been presented at REDCAT, the Bates Dance Festival, Ruhrtriennale Festival, and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and he has contributed to projects with Vice Media, LW Entertainment, Durable Content, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run Tour. Originally from outside Portland, Maine, he trained at the California Institute of the Arts, earning a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography in 2011, and is a 2010 Princess Grace Dance Scholarship recipient. He has performed with companies including BODYTRAFFIC, Shen Wei Dance Arts, OUI DANSE, ARC Dance Project, and Island Moving Company.

He has also maintained an active performance career, with stage credits including Hamilton: An American Musical (2017-2023), the 2016 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, and original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Masquerade (2025), alongside commercial appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parenthood, the MTV VMAs with Taylor Swift, and Phish Live at Madison Square Garden. Andrew has taught at Juilliard, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Loyola Marymount University, and AMDA, and served as an Arts Ambassador with the U.S. Department of State, leading programs across Turkey, Israel, and Jordan. He is based in New York City.