Poem of Elisa Lam investigates the last known physical movements, captured by elevator surveillance, of a woman hours before her death in a water tank on the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel, then an SRO, in 2013. Footage of Elisa, released by police in the effort to identify the body, went viral, becoming subject to thousands of conspiracy theories and joining the Black Dahlia as one of the great unsolved mysteries of Los Angeles’ history.
Maya Gurantz has created a body of work in video and dance based on learning the source footage, re-enacting and excavating Elisa’s movement beat-by-beat, working like a “somatic detective” to find the movement beneath the movement and putting Elisa’s own body at the center of any possible attempt to understand her unknowable experience.
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