Perhaps that's why they haven't made much of a song and dance about their Dirty Dancing connections - yet. It's exactly the kind of place that would be shocked by the sight of sweaty young people grinding away to Latin music.ĭancing fame: A sign marks the spot of a film location at the golf course Visit this quiet, conservative little resort and you can't imagine the thousand or so permanent residents getting up to such shenanigans. That might be because Dirty Dancing's most memorable scenes - Johnny lifting Baby out of the water, Johnny and friends gyrating in his hot, dark cabin - were filmed at a beauty spot near Charlotte called Lake Lure. Today, my instructor Tony Prado, who co-owns the Queen's City Ballroom with partner Dana Glandon, told me it's still definitely the Swayze-style, passionate Latin dances his clients are most keen to learn - merengue, tango, salsa, lambada and the like. Released in 1987, it stars the late Patrick Swayze, whose sensational dancing earned him the title of sexiest man in the world.
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Thanks to Strictly Come Dancing and films such as Shall We Dance? with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, everyone's gone merengue mad, and dance schools both sides of the Atlantic have twice as many pupils.īut, undoubtedly, the film that started it all, the one that made everyone want to strut their stuff, was Dirty Dancing, the best dance movie ever made. Held close to him by a hand pressed into the small of my back, I had my own personal Patrick Swayze moment, giggled, then fell over my feet again.
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Strutting her stuff: Wendy with instructor Tony Prado
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