In 1963 at the 92nd Street Y, Martha Graham sat down with the prolific dance historian and critic Walter Terry for a collegial conversation about her life and work. At age 69, the most consequential mother of modern dance was looking down a dark, dry well—her approaching retirement from the stage (choreography meant nothing to her, she always insisted, if she couldn’t dance)—and offering up piercing truths, in her demure fashion. In 2011, the Martha-mad choreographer and performance artist Richard Move and the actress Lisa Kron re-created that interview, down to the pauses between words. Now, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, they’re doing it again. The material is ripe for camp. Move may be luminously good at being Martha but at six foot four the dancer can’t help exaggerating her. And Terry, southern and fey, was already tipping toward camp. But Martha@ BAM—The 1963 Interview resists. It simply incarnates the long-ago moment, stirring up tender feelings. For anyone who has ever loved Graham’s work, her dancing, her pronouncements, even her grandiose self-mythologizing, The 1963 Interview lands like a miracle, to have her so close. —Apollinaire Scherr