3 months ago 07th Aug 15:14
No matter how many dance movies make it onto the big screen they still do well at the box office as fans flock to see them time after time making the dance movie a successful genre of it's own.
While Step Up, Save the Last Dance and How She Move have all hit cinema screens in recent years but this genre found success in the mid fifties as Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers brought a more refined style of dance to cinema audiences.
However it was the seventies and eighties where this genre really took off and found an audience kicking off with John Travolta's thrusting hips in Saturday Night Fever.
The 1977 launched the career of the young actor and clubs were ringing to the sound of Stayin' Alive as hordes of fans tried to reproduce Travolta's now classic look and moves.
Flashdance and Footloose followed in the early part of the eighties both going on to do well, in terms of gross, at the box office.
Despite this success of these films it was 1987's Dirty Dancing that became the template for so many movies that followed.
Set in the summer of 1963 the film follows baby, played by Jennifer Grey, as she crosses from a teenager to a young woman, both emotionally and physically, through a relationship with a dance instructor.
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