Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner

Urban Dance Complex’s latest production, Grimey Groovz, may allude to dirrrty dancing, but you’ll find no naughty grinding here. The show is actually a riff on Dirty Dancing, that dreamy ’80s classic, now done hip-hop style. “I wasn’t one of those kids who fell in love with Dirty Dancing [at first],” explains director-choreographer Sarah Cover. “I found it later in life.” And when she did, Cover realized it would translate well in a hip-hop interpretation. Staged in a modern landscape, the show captures the essence of the Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey romance through dance-floor duets and R & B songs such as John Legend’s “It Don’t Have to Change.” Student dancers, ranging from 10-year-olds to high schoolers, break a sweat in three performances on Saturday.