Legendary choreographer dies

A renowned choreographer of several films and performances spanning through six decades, Merce Cunningham, has died at the age of 90, reports the Washington Post. Natural causes were the determination of his death. At the beginning of his career, Cunningham had founded the Merce Cunningham dance society, where artists and entertainment leaders of all sorts (ranging from composer John Cage to pop artist Andy Warhol) came to lend and exchange ideas. Cunningham is credited on expanding the technical limits of modern ballet into a more intense performance.

The Los Angeles Times relates that Cunningham was active in his craft until the very end of his life. In April, on his 90th birthday, Cunningham introduced a new dance, aptly titled the "Nearly Ninety," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Cunningham is considered, to many, a frontrunner in innovative choreography because of his constant rejection of conventionality in any former concepts of dance. He certainly will be remembered.