Eugene Louis Faccuito, a dancer and choreographer whose physical reawakening after a paralyzing accident became the wellspring of an internationally renowned jazz dance technique, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was cancer, said Francis J. Roach, the director of Luigi's Jazz Center, the school Mr. Faccuito founded in Manhattan in 1957.

One of the world's foremost teachers of dance, Mr. Faccuito — pronounced fah-CHEW-toe — was known familiarly by the single name Luigi. (He had the name bestowed on him while making the 1949 Hollywood musical "On the Town" by its co-star and co-director, Gene Kelly, who found the presence of two Genes on the set disconcerting.)

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