Figuring Space
Featuring AMMA, Gurmukhi Desai Bevli, jeremy de’jon guyton, and Mamie Green/ VOLTA

A shared evening of new and in-process work, Figuring Space, invites four LA-based artists – AMMA, Gurmukhi Desai Bevli, jeremy de’jon guyton, and Mamie Green/ VOLTA – to respond to the architecture and context of MOCA's WAREHOUSE through movement. Trained in contemporary dance and choreography the artists are encouraged to experiment, improvise, play, and explore as they inhabit and figure out the space. Harnessing the building's industrial legacy and drawing attention to its contradictory uses—a former police car storage facility that is now an art museum in Downtown LA—each artist reconfigures and reflects the singular space.

Figuring Space continues MOCA's ongoing presentation of site-specific movement and sound-based work created in dialogue with the building.

Artist Bios

AMMA (Alexsa Miles Miles Alexsa) is a run-on sentence in the form of a choreographic practice by artists Alexsa Durrans and Miles Brenninkmeijer. Established in 2018, their dances are inspired by the spectacle of movement performed in the context of arena concerts, halftime shows, synchronized swimming, etc. Previous performance presentations include Recital (Epilogue) at Human Resources LA (2026), Recital (Arena Tour) at WIP LA (2024), EQ at Eden (2023), The Halftime Show at Pieter Performance Space (2019), and Bye Bye Bye at Weekend At Berenice (2018).

Alexsa Durrans (b. Vancouver, Canada, 1994) is a LA-based artist working in the fields of performance, visual art and experimental dance.

Miles Brenninkmeijer (b. São Paulo, Brazil, 1993) is a dancer and choreographer based in LA working across live performance and on-screen movement.

Gurmukhi Desai Bevli is a descendant of refugees from the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. Her interests are always informed by this knowledge and so are her reasons for making dance. Broadly, Bevli unravels and negotiates the politics of migration. She questions how her body can hold trauma it has never experienced, or remember histories it can never access. The intersections of culture, memory, and grief are murky, and Bevli’s work likes to live in the discomfort of unpacking them. There is a lot of stillness, silence, and voice. Sometimes this feels inescapably heavy, so there may be an attempt at humor, which often leaves the audience divided.

jeremy de’jon guyton is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and archivist engaging afro//queer technologies to construct immersive worlds that invite deep listening, critical inquiry, and collective dreaming. With an MFA in Choreography & Performance from Florida State University and a BA in Theatre & Performance Studies from Georgetown University, his creative research integrates devised theatre practices, text and spoken word, media, and social and club movement languages. He has toured internationally with critically acclaimed artist, Solange Knowles, and is an active contributor to regional and international artist collectives, most recently working with Will Rawls and Jeremy Nedd. Bridging creative practice with community care and cultural preservation, he is the founder and legacy steward of a.l.t. ^home, a creative residency and living cultural archive housed in his family home in South LA.

Mamie Green is a choreographer and the director of VOLTA, an interdisciplinary performance project. Named in Fjord Review’s Best of Dance 2023 and Bachtrack’s Young Choreographers to Watch, Green’s work has been commissioned and presented internationally at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, LACMA, MAXXI National Museum, Jeffrey Deitch, Ace Hotel Brooklyn, MAK Center at the Schindler House, New Theater Hollywood, and Skirball Cultural Center among others. Green holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts and is the recipient of grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation and more.

Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, and is produced by Amelia Charter, Producer of Performance and Programs, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.