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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Let's talk about the movie Dirty Dancing.
Okay, so in the movie, Patrick Swayze is a skilled, trained dancer, and he's teaching the untrained, relatively unskilled Jennifer Gray how to dance as a duo.
Her hand is on his shoulder.
His hand is on her back.
Their other hands are clasped.
And he's like, hey, you're in my space.
Lock your pray.
Look, spaghetti arms.
Come on, spaghetti arms.
Lock your arms.
Hold the frames.
This is my dance space, and this is your dance space.
I don't go into yours.