Trisha Brown’s Balls
“I asked her once what she looks for in a dancer, and she said, ‘Look to the base, look at their ankles.’ She was a ground-up kind of dancer. She would use those balls every morning to warm up. She had this system of rolling her body on those balls — shoulders, knees, hips, back. Sometimes I’d be leaving for school and she’d be floating on top of those balls. I always thought she could levitate. It grounded her, and it made her feel like who she was and what she was about.” Adam Martell Brown, son
