Cunningham used the chance method of choreographing movement phrases because:

a. he believed that each artist should be free to create their own art without considering the other components of the dance event
b. he thought that the eye of the audience should be free to look at whatever they wanted and not be directed to one main event on stage
c. it freed his imagination from its own clichés
d. he believed that all events on stage are of equal importance dance offers a multiplicity of meanings to a number of people