You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

In 2009 the Cunningham Dance Foundation announced the Legacy Plan a precedent-setting plan for the continuation of Cunningham’s work and the celebration and preservation of his artistic legacy. As a choreographer teacher and leader of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Cunningham had a profound influence on modern dance.