--- title: Video: Boy Mimics Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing description: Little kid watches Dirty Dancing and tries to copy Patrick Swayze canonical: https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-14T14:09:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:46.794Z og:title: Video: Boy Mimics Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing og:description: Little kid watches Dirty Dancing and tries to copy Patrick Swayze og:url: https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video: Boy Mimics Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing twitter:description: Little kid watches Dirty Dancing and tries to copy Patrick Swayze twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Have the Time of Your Life Watching This Kid Mimic Patrick Swayze in _Dirty Dancing_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 14, 2014 2:09 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 14, 2014 2:09 PM UTC If the Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey camp classic _Dirty Dancing_ is going to be rebooted in the year 2034, there’s a new contender for stepping into Swayze’s jazz shoes—Charlie, one of those soon-to-be stars who only needs a first name. [In this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuddLqN3nYo), the action starts slowly, but the second the tempo in Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes’s hit “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” kicks up, young Charlie kicks into gear and starts making some serious moves. Just seconds into the video, the young gun proves he can cha cha cha with the best of them, matching Swayze step for step, hip swivel for hip swivel, in the film’s grand finale—he doesn’t even need a partner to help him shine. Video: Boy Mimics Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/"},"headline":"Have the Time of Your Life Watching This Kid Mimic Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing","datePublished":"2014-10-14T14:09:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:46.794Z","description":"Move over, Billy Elliott","url":"https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Viral video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3506010/boy-dirty-dancing-video/","name":"Have the Time of Your Life Watching This Kid Mimic Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing"}}]}] ```