DIRTY DANCING Movie @ ROBINSON GRAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Performance Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022, 7:00 pm

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. It tells the story of Frances “Baby” Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) at a vacation resort.

The film was based on screenwriter Bergstein’s own childhood. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film’s score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega.

Dirty Dancing premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival in May of 1987, and was released in August of 1987, in the United States, earning over $214 million worldwide, and was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video. It earned positive reviews from critics, who particularly praised the performances of Grey and Swayze, and its soundtrack, created by Jimmy Ienner, generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles.