Dance review Modern master's moves are not for the birds

Merce Cunningham was always ahead of his time: as a dancer with the pioneering Martha Graham; at the forefront of mid-20th-century experimentalism with his partner John Cage; and using computer power to create choreography in the 1990s, three decades before the AI boom.

- Lyndsey Winship

Cunningham died in 2009, at the age of 90, and one of his dancers, Cédric Andrieux, now leads Lyon Opera Ballet, which pays tribute to him by revisiting two works, Beach Birds (1991) and Biped (1999).

Beach Birds is a classic. The dancers wear white unitards with a black stripe extending across the chest to gloved hands, and they do look bird-like, arms curved away from the body like wings. They jump and hop and tilt in balances, with quirky twists of the head.