Jenna Dewan turned a personal tribute into a Dedication Night setup on Dancing with the Stars, sharing photos of herself and Nancy on Instagram before Tuesday Dedication Night. How old is Jenna Dewan is the search readers may still have, but the post puts the focus on the dance she plans to dedicate to her mom.
She wrote that she had been thinking about everything Nancy taught her throughout her life. Dewan said her mother showed her how to lead with kindness, give people grace, stay strong without losing softness, and keep her heart open even when life did not go the way she imagined.
Nancy shaped the dance
Dewan also called Nancy her biggest cheerleader and said she believed in her before Dewan knew what was possible for herself. She added that Nancy first encouraged her love of dance, which gives Tuesday Dedication Night a direct family link rather than a generic tribute slot.
Alan Bersten will dance with Dewan for Dedication Night, not Val Chmerkovskiy. Val was suspended for one week after comments made seemingly targeting Carrie Ann Inaba, so the lineup for this performance shifts even as the emotional center of the number stays with Nancy.
Bersten steps in for Tuesday
That switch changes the frame of the performance: the tribute remains Dewan’s, but the execution now falls to Bersten for the one-night assignment. For viewers tracking Dancing with the Stars as a weekly event, the real draw is not the partner swap alone; it is whether the dance can carry the values Dewan put into the post, especially with Nancy tied to her earliest interest in dance.
Jenna Dewan and Nancy now sit at the center of the night’s story, with the dedication giving the performance a clear emotional target. The practical takeaway is simple: Tuesday Dedication Night is the moment to watch, because that is when Dewan translates the post into the dance itself.
