How does dirty dancing end

While clumsily dancing with Neil, Baby's eyes are drawn to the professional dancers hired to entertain the guests: Penny Johnson and Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze. Their dancing, while not that dirty, intrigues her.

That night, Baby helps Billy Kostecki, one of the workers at Kellerman's, carry a watermelon to the employees' cabin. Up on the hill, Baby witnesses some bumping and grinding like she's never before seen back home.

And who's there being the bumpiest and grindiest of them all? Penny and Johnny, of course. Baby looks at Penny with envy, but Billy lets her know that Penny and Johnny aren't a couple. Johnny teaches Baby a few moves, and boy, does Baby let loose. This dirty dancing might be her new talent. Later, Penny misses an evening where she's supposed to be teaching dance classes. Baby accidentally finds Penny crying in the kitchen. See a Penny, pick her up, right?

Baby runs to Johnny for help. Baby learns that Penny is pregnant. Sleazy Yalie waiter Robbie is the father. Baby tries to get the money from Robbie, who's a deadbeat baby daddy. He refuses, so Baby dumps water on him. Take a cold shower, Robbie. After that, Baby turns to her own dad Jerry Orbach who's as far from a deadbeat as one can get. He loans Baby the money, even though she won't tell him what it's for. Baby delivers the money to Penny, but learns about another problem: If Penny has the abortion, she can't compete in the resort's dance competition.

Baby agrees to stand-in for Penny, which means she must learn to dance. Johnny takes on the role of teacher and Baby learns fast. The dance they're going to perform has a daring lift. They practice the maneuver in a nearby lake, for safety's sake. In the water, Baby's white shirt clings to her, and she clings to a shirtless Johnny. This is one wet, hot American summer. Ready for the dance, Baby and Johnny travel to the Sheldrake for their performance.

Penny helps Baby get ready, and she thanks Baby for helping her. From the first take and in the euphoria of the moment, Jennifer Grey performed the most sensual dance ever to grace our screens, followed by the most iconic lift in cinema history. I only did it on the day I shot it. Never rehearsed it, never done it since. He was a fearless person who had no qualms about the extent of his physical capabilities.

Once the lift was in the bag, they had to reassure her for the many other lifts of the sequence. The pair performed the mambo, followed by Patrick Swayze 's stunt of jumping off the stage to rejoin the troupe of dancers. The whole thing was done on a demo of The Time of My Life because at the time of filming, the Bill Medly song wasn't finished yet.

Shot in the Fall of , Dirty Dancing put the actors' bodies to the test. Despite his professionalism, the numerous dance scenes did take a toll on Patrick Swayze 's health. After falling on his knee during the tree-trunk balancing sequence, he injured himself during the lake carry sequence.

In addition to the icy water, Patrick Swayze had to hide his pain. He made it through so many jumps, slips, and dance steps… but during the final scene, the actor twisted his ankle. Even this millionth injury did not stop him from performing the cult dance finale. When she later observes the staff members dirty dancing with each other, this represents her first exposure to adult sexuality. That night, Johnny gives her her first informal lesson and almost immediately unlocks a new looseness in her physicality.

Simultaneously, dance becomes a means of learning femininity — the art of projecting her womanly grace and power through her body.

Baby studies this by imitating Penny , a more mature female Baby looks up to. In this process, Baby undergoes a physical transformation — changing her hair, starting to wear makeup, and gradually exposing more of her body. Her new appearance reflects a woman who is increasingly comfortable in her own skin. She even leads Johnny and playfully bosses him around when they dance, showing off her new dominance and empowerment. Dirty Dancing captures an authentic female perspective of the joys of first love.

She learns to know and express herself through dance, and sex. Johnny takes Baby from her father to publicly dance with her. Still, in the most important ways, he is that guy as great as her dad she was searching for — someone caring, with an intact moral compass, unlike pretty much every other man Baby interacts with in the film, and thus a worthy replacement of her father as a love object. While the guests lust after Johnny and Penny, they also treat the staff as no more than sexual objects —.