Joan Acocella: Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and modern American dance.
Merce Cunningham, incontestably the grand master of modern dance—and the man by whom it was converted, belatedly, to modernism—died two and a half years ago, at the age of ninety. For most of his adult life, he had John Cage as his partner, and it was . . . (Subscription required.)