In this Cunningham centennial year, appreciations of his life and art have rolled out on a grand, global scale. Opportunities abound to see his mind-expanding, still-radical work, and to reflect ...

"Cunningham technique has its own music," Sabado said. "You just have to find it, and then you have to put your own body into it." Enlarge this image.

The Cunningham technique is demanding, rigorous and formalistic. But Self, who leads dance improv classes, also stresses an often-unnoticed characteristic to Cunningham’s work: its playfulness.

The Cunningham technique is a brain and body teaser involving coordination of the torso, legs and arms, as well as timing and rhythm without the help of music.

I never studied Cunningham technique, so it’s not in my body. But I’ve been watching his works since the day I came to New York, and I became a fan of his mind.

Director of Choreography Jennifer Goggans who has been teaching the Cunningham Technique since 2005, first learned about Kovgan’s project through Cunningham collaborator and trustee of the Merce ...

When Merce Cunningham was a young man, ... Karole Armitage, now a seminal modern choreographer and a five-year veteran of the company, says the Cunningham technique was “totally natural.

Cunningham challenged the conventions of how dances are performed, letting chance lead him to new possibilities. A former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, he formed his own company in 1953.

It was a typical encounter with the Merce Cunningham technique, which routinely confronts its practitioners with riddles, contradictions and near-impossible tasks.