Robert Swinston and Cheryl Therrien of the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company perform "Fabrications".

The death of choreographer Merce Cunningham is reported today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8171036.stm

US choreographer Merce Cunningham, widely recognised for revolutionising modern dance, has died aged 90.

A statement from the Cunningham Dance Foundation said the New York-based dancer "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" on Sunday.

Alastair Macaulay writes for the New York Times:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/merce-cunningham-dies/

Mr. Cunningham ranks with Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography, posing a series of “But” and “What if?” questions over a career of nearly seven decades.