Review: For Merce Cunningham's 100th birthday, an exceptional 'Night of 100 Solos'

LOS ANGELES - Merce Cunningham died 10 years ago at 90. He was easily the greatest choreographer of the second half of the 20th century and a teeny bit into the 21st. He left behind an enormous body of work. He passed on new techniques of movement to generations of dancers, while his profound ways of thinking about the meaning of movement have much broader implications for art and how we might better look at life.

Yet all of it vanishes into air, as Cunningham himself was known to