Two years ago, the 92nd Street Y contacted dance artist Richard Move “out of the blue” with a recently discovered audio recording from its long-running Legendary Speakers series of a 1963 interview between dance legend Martha Graham and writer and historian Walter Terry. “We knew you would love this,” a representative of the organization told him.

The hunch was right, as Move has now fashioned the recording into the latest iteration of his Martha@ franchise, titled Martha@…The 1963 Interview. A staged recreation of the historic interview opens March 30 at Dance Theater Workshop, which also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the iconic choreographer’s passing.

Move—playing yet another incarnation of the Martha Graham impersonation that made him a celebrated fixture of Downtown dance in the late ’90s—will team up with performer Lisa Kron (filling the pants of Walter Terry) to reconstruct the tête-à-tête, while Martha Graham Company principal Katherine Crockett and former Graham Company member Catherine Cabeen bring to life Graham’s recollections of herself, as Move explains, “dancing some of the iconic moments of some of her great ballets at the peak of her power.”

The recently discovered recording has opened for Move a window into Graham’s more vulnerable dimension. “It’s a departure from how I normally perform her, where she is in complete and utter control—which is also the way she generally appeared in public. This interview is different because that high priestess, goddess, oracular Graham is still there, and she says the most amazing and otherworldly kind of mystical things that we want her to say. But there are many moments where she’s caught slightly off guard and has to bring herself back to center and find the appropriate words.”

But, Move warns: “I don’t want to paint this picture that she’s careening out of control: She says amazing things, and she’s still at the top of her game. And she gets up and dances in the interview as well. But there is a real humanity and vulnerability to her… She keeps surprising me!”

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