Famed choreographer Merce Cunningham dies at 90 (AP)

Cunningham — who was still working as he marked his 90th birthday just 3 1/2 months ago — died on Sunday at his Manhattan home, said Leah Sandals, spokeswoman for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company . She said he died of natural causes but declined to elaborate.

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The onetime Martha Graham dancer was credited with remaking modern dance by creating works of pure movement divorced from storytelling and even from musical accompaniment. "I'd rather find out something than repeat what I know," he once said. "I prefer adventure to something that's fixed." In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Cunningham determined steps by chance — saying it freed his imagination — and shattered unwritten rules such as the need for dancers to face the audience and keep time with the music.

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