Jamie Williams, professor and director of dance at San Jacinto College, offers a contextual lecture on the life and artistic legacy of choreographer Merce Cunningham in advance of the restaging of 50 Looks performed May 16 in the Rienzi Gardens. The lecture illuminates Cunningham’s creative process, with particular attention to his groundbreaking use of chance procedures in dance composition, situating the work within his radical reimagining of movement, structure, and perception.