Cunningham furnished dancers with the necessary triggers to begin their performances. They would then improvise through their knowledge of techniques in their dance discipline and the repetition of such that was experienced and performed to the music. It is then transfigured to the voyeur enabling them to enter the performance.
The only solid structure that Cunningham applies is in the duration of the performance. In his final interview, shortly before his death, Nancy Dalva comments on his work stating how no one ever knows where the performance is going; Cunningham believes this is a lot to do with how life is now. I think this reflects on his work at large in which the performers perform time. This is similar to Cage’s music in that he allows the music to submit itself to the present, the live experience.
"(Combination of) music, dance, and image multiplication to create a film that enhances our perception of motion."
Merce Cunningham
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