Unlike so many biographies of dance maestros, Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years offers no litany of substance or psychological abuse. The volume, assembled by the archivist of Merce Cunningham"s world-renowned U.S. company, records and analyzes Cunningham"s work process and documents the provenance of his modern dance classics. Heavily spiced with biographical detail, Merce Cunningham packages the choreographer"s life story in a lovely design that respects his whole body and conveys a rare sense of movement in its mass of still photos.