Dirty Dancing
Resort summer romance
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American film about a young woman's summer romance with a dance instructor at a Catskills resort.
The title refers to close-contact partner dancing with sexual overtones—grinding hips, intimate holds.
Beyond the film, dirty dancing describes any provocatively physical dancing: They were dirty dancing at the club all night.
- 1987Late twentieth-century year
- CatskillsAppalachian range in New York
- final sceneLast part of performance
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
watermelon · box office · summer resort · Penny · mambo · sequel
Fast Cuban ballroom dance
- salsaSpicy tomato condiment
- merengueLatin partnered dance
- LatinAncient Roman language
- choreographyDesigning performance movement sequences
lift · ballroom · sensual · rhythm · steps · rehearsal · practice · performance
Romance society prohibits
- class divideGap between economic strata
- passionIntense emotional drive
- chemistryStudy of substances' interactions
- attractionPull toward something
summer romance · coming-of-age · first love · courtship · intimacy · embrace · desire · flirtation
Patrick Swayze
- 1987Late twentieth-century year
- CatskillsAppalachian range in New York
- final sceneLast part of performance
lift · watermelon · box office · summer resort · Penny · mambo · sequel
mambo
Fast Cuban ballroom dance
choreography · lift · ballroom · sensual · rhythm · steps · rehearsal · practice · performance · finale
forbidden love
Romance society prohibits
- class divideGap between economic strata
- passionIntense emotional drive
- chemistryStudy of substances' interactions
attraction · summer romance · coming-of-age · first love · courtship · intimacy · embrace · desire · flirtation · lovers
1980s
Fourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
- cult classicObscure work with devoted fans
- iconicWidely recognized, enduring
- VHSAnalog tape format
classic · retro · vintage · timeless · memories · era · oldies · flashback · summer camp · youth
vinyl
Synthetic resin plastic
- 80s Pop CultureBack to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, The Breakfast Club
- Dance Mediadance film, dance video, Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever, Billy Elliot
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- 80sbig hair, mullets, shoulder pads, new wave, synth-pop
- musicalsWicked, Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Grease
- 1987 EventsBlack Monday, Iran-Contra, Predator, Fatal Attraction, Full Metal Jacket
Dirty DancingShoah
Nazi extermination of Jews
An Inconvenient Truth · documentary · documentary film · horror film · news footage
Dirty Dancingballroom dancing
Formal partnered dance styles
waltz · cotillion · ballet · square dancing · minuet
dirty, dirt, dancing, dirtied, dirtiness, dirtying, dirties, dirtbag, dirtbike