Shirley MacLaine Tapped for Lifetime Achievement Nod at Trade Dance Awards; Annette Bening to Current (Unique)

Shirley MacLaine will obtain the lifetime achievement award on the 2023 Trade Dance Awards. 

Annette Bening will current MacLaine with the award on the occasion, happening Oct. 18 at Avalon Hollywood. It’s a household affair: Bening is MacLaine’s sister-in-law, as she’s married to MacLaine’s brother, Warren Beatty.

The ceremony might be hosted by The Discuss co-host Amanda Kloots, a former Broadway dancer and Radio Metropolis Rockette.

The occasion is a profit within the struggle in opposition to most cancers. This 12 months, the Trade Dance Awards and Dancers Towards Most cancers are presenting the inaugural Stephen “tWitch” Boss Legacy of Hope Scholarship. The scholarship goals to honor Boss “by passing the torch to a brand new era of gifted dancers, encouraging and supporting their continued journey and fervour for dance by way of an annual scholarship.” Boss, the dancer, choreographer, actor and producer who received his large break on So You Assume You Can Dance earlier than spending 9 years on The Ellen DeGeneres Present, took his personal life in December.

Different honorees on the occasion will embody:

Extra awards might be offered for finest hip-hop efficiency, finest jazz efficiency, finest open/ballet/acro, finest faucet, finest lyrical, finest novelty/musical, individuals’s alternative and choreography of the 12 months. 

Industrial jazz legend Jackie Sleight will direct and choreograph this 12 months’s ceremony. Noah Lands is govt producing, with Adrian Ruiz and Matthew Diaz-Caldwell returning as producers.