Overview
- MacLaine made a rare public appearance on Dec. 3 at the Gloria Kaufmann Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles for the Dance Hall of Fame’s first induction ceremony.
- She received the event’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, which organizers said will carry her name going forward.
- In her remarks, she credited decades of training with sustaining her health and urged anyone seeking direction to take ballet.
- The inaugural class included Mikhail Baryshnikov, Misty Copeland and Kenny Ortega, with posthumous honors for Gene Kelly, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey and Stephen “Twitch” Boss.
- Family and colleagues accepted for late honorees, including Channing Tatum with Stephen Boss’s mother Connie Boss Alexander and brother Deondre Rose, Patricia Ward Kelly for Gene Kelly, and Noah Fosse for Bob Fosse.