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Dirty Dancing: Legacy & Music

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Swayze) while vacationing at a Borscht…

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Dirty Dancing topic overview

The analysis highlights Legacy and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Dirty Dancing.

Related topics
167
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
175
Extracted relationships
244
Concept neighborhoods
28
Bridge connections
175

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 39 topics
Other media · 36 topics
Production · 31 topics
Reception · 21 topics
Cast · 16 topics
Music · 16 topics
Legacy · 4 topics
Plot · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$214 million
Budget
$4.5 million
Cinematography
Jeffrey Jur
Country
United States
Directed by
Emile Ardolino
Distributed by
Vestron Pictures

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception

Music

Legacy

Other media

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Dirty Dancing connects Entity context

The extracted context around Dirty Dancing shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Dirty Dancing → After Toronto, Al Sapienza, Aldwych Theatre, Although, Another West End, April, Australia, Baby, Baby Houseman, Boston, Britta Lazenga, Brown, By March, Canada, Canadian, Chicago, Chong Lim, Dominion Theatre, Eleanor Bergstein, February Another extracted example is Dirty Dancing → Ardolino, Baby, Bergstein, Bergstein's, By, Catskills, Eileen Miselle, Eleanor Bergstein's, Emile Ardolino, Gottlieb, In, It's My Turn, Jewish, Johnny, Jon Peisinger, Linda Gottlieb, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM, Michael Douglas, Michael Terrace. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Dirty Dancing

Top relations

related to Stage adaptation · 57
Dirty Dancing → After Toronto, Al Sapienza, Aldwych Theatre, Although, Another West End, April, Australia, Baby, Baby Houseman, Boston, Britta Lazenga, Brown, By March, Canada, Canadian, Chicago, Chong Lim, Dominion Theatre, Eleanor Bergstein, February
related to Pre-production · 31
Dirty Dancing → Ardolino, Baby, Bergstein, Bergstein's, By, Catskills, Eileen Miselle, Eleanor Bergstein's, Emile Ardolino, Gottlieb, In, It's My Turn, Jewish, Johnny, Jon Peisinger, Linda Gottlieb, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM, Michael Douglas, Michael Terrace
related to Filming · 24
Dirty Dancing → According, Baby, Boy Scout Camp, Camp Chimney Rock, Filming, Firefly Cove, Houseman, Johnny's, Kellerman's Hotel, Kenny Ortega, Lake Lure, Mountain Lake, North Carolina, Patrick Swayze, Paula Trueman, Penny, Principal, Rumbling Bald Golf Course, Scenes, September
related to Critical response · 21
Dirty Dancing → America, Audiences, CinemaScore, Eleanor Bergstein's, Gene Siskel, If, In, Jennifer Grey's, Jezebel's Irin Carmon, Like, Metacritic, Other, Review, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, The, The New York Times, Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Time
related to Remake · 20
Dirty Dancing → ABC, Abigail Breslin, Billy Dee Williams, Colt Prattes, Debra Messing, In August, In December, It, Joe Drake, July, Kenny Ortega, Lionsgate, Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, May, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Hyland, Shane Harper, The, We, Western North Carolina
related to 20th anniversary releases · 18
Dirty Dancing → At, Channel Five, Channel Five's, Codemasters, Dawn Porter, DVD, For, In, Mountain Lake, Porter, Presented, Seriously Dirty Dancing, The Time, The Video Game, TV, UK, United Kingdom, Your Life
related to Sequel · 18
Dirty Dancing → As, Baby, Brad Simpson, CinemaCon, DD, February, Grey, In, In July, Jonathan Levine, Kim Rosenstock, Lionsgate, Nina Jacobson, On May, Plans, SAG-AFTRA, The Hollywood Reporter, Vestron
related to Legacy · 13
Dirty Dancing → Baby, English, Esmeralda Inn, In Sweden, Jam, Karlstad University, Lake Lure Dance Festival, Lionsgate, Nobody, Restaurant, Sisters, The, Umeå Bus Square
related to Tour · 8
Dirty Dancing → Bill Medley, Concert, Contours, Eric Carmen, In, Live, Merry Clayton, Ronnie Spector
related to External links · 7
Dirty Dancing → AFI Catalog, Box Office MojoDirty Dancing, Feature FilmsDirty Dancing, IMDb Dirty Dancing, MetacriticDirty Dancing, Rotten TomatoesDirty Dancing, TCM Movie Database

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film dancing baby dirty time johnny dance grey swayze production bergstein million houseman one song film's scene also role vestron

Dirty Dancing relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 244 structured relationships around Dirty Dancing. Examples in this analysis include Dirty Dancing → Box office → $214 million and Dirty Dancing → Budget → $4.5 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dirty DancingBox office$214 million1.00infobox
Dirty DancingBudget$4.5 million1.00infobox
Dirty DancingCinematographyJeffrey Jur1.00infobox
Dirty DancingCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Dirty DancingDirected byEmile Ardolino1.00infobox
Dirty DancingDistributed byVestron Pictures1.00infobox
Dirty DancingEdited byPeter C. Frank1.00infobox
Dirty DancingLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Dirty DancingMusic byJohn Morris1.00infobox
Dirty DancingMusic byErich Bulling1.00infobox
Dirty DancingMusic byJon Barns1.00infobox
Dirty DancingProduced byLinda Gottlieb1.00infobox
Dirty DancingProduction companyGreat American Films Limited Partnership1.00infobox
Dirty DancingRelease datesMay 12, 1987 (1987-05-12) (Cannes)1.00infobox
Dirty DancingRelease datesAugust 21, 1987 (1987-08-21) (United States)1.00infobox
Dirty DancingRunning time100 minutes1.00infobox
Dirty DancingStarringPatrick Swayze1.00infobox
Dirty DancingStarringJennifer Grey1.00infobox
Dirty DancingStarringJerry Orbach1.00infobox
Dirty DancingStarringCynthia Rhodes1.00infobox
Dirty DancingWritten byEleanor Bergstein1.00infobox
Dirty Dancingis a1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Dirty Dancing bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Dirty, Film and Time. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Dirty Dancing
    • Dirty
    • Film
    • Time
    • Ardolino
    • Lake
    • Music
    • Dance
    • Life
    • Million
    • One
    • Grey
    • Gottlieb
  • dirty dancing
    • Dirty
    • Film
    • Time
    • Music
    • Baby
    • Ardolino
    • Lake
    • Grey
    • Dance
    • Story
    • Johnny
    • Filming
  • dance film
    • Story
    • Johnny
    • One
    • Time
    • Bergstein's
    • Baby
    • Scene
    • Million
    • Bergstein
    • Film
    • United
    • Vestron
  • eleanor bergstein
    • Gottlieb
    • Ardolino
    • Script
    • Film
    • Production
    • Story
    • Dance
    • Jennifer
    • Also
    • Film's
    • Dancing
    • Grey
  • jennifer grey
    • Swayze
    • Grey
    • Jennifer
    • Time
    • Life
    • Role
    • Song
    • Story
    • Bergstein's
    • Also
    • Houseman
    • Baby
  • cannes film festival
    • One
    • Time
    • Bergstein's
    • Million
    • Story
    • United
    • Vestron
    • Production
    • Became
    • Put
    • Release
    • Script
  • national film registry
    • One
    • Time
    • Bergstein's
    • Million
    • Story
    • United
    • Vestron
    • Production
    • Became
    • Put
    • Release
    • Script
  • dirty dancing: havana nights
    • Dirty
    • Film
    • Time
    • Music
    • Baby
    • Ardolino
    • Lake
    • Grey
    • Dance
    • Story
    • Johnny
    • Filming

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Dirty Dancing, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Dirty Dancing with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Dirty DancingOverview · splits 136 ⟂ 40
Dirty DancingOther media · splits 139 ⟂ 37
Dirty DancingProduction · splits 144 ⟂ 32
Dirty DancingReception · splits 154 ⟂ 22
Dirty DancingCast · splits 159 ⟂ 17
Dirty DancingMusic · splits 159 ⟂ 17
Dirty DancingPlot · splits 171 ⟂ 5
Dirty DancingLegacy · splits 171 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Dirty Dancing

Nodes176
Edges175
Triples244
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011364
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Dirty Dancing to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Dirty Dancing · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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