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The culmination of my thesis is a performance in which a cast of movement architects construct a cohabitated space in real time, while the audience experiences the transformation of their surroundings through their multisensory witnessing. This cast assumes the dual roles of performer and stage crew, both of which are visible to the spectator, in pursuit of exposing the labor that occurs in performance development. Following this notion of exposure, everything, including materials, are visible to the audience. This work captures multi- and inter-disciplinary scenographic design in a limitless space by transforming its energy through response to its architecture as the cast shifts their roles and tasks. The transformation of the space within OMA mirrors my ongoing research investigations of space in dialogue with Laban Movement Analysis and Space Syntax relative to scenographic design. The ever-expanding archive of theoretical materials referenced is comprised of texts by Arnold Aronson, Eleftheria Paliou, Bill Hillier, Joslin McKinney, Scott Palmer, Nicolas Salazar Sutil, and Richard Schechner.