In 1958, Katey Miller, her parents and her younger sister Susie arrive in Cuba during the Cuban revolution. It was mostly filmed in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Patrick Swayze, star of the original Dirty Dancing, appears as a dance instructor. The film is an unrelated prequel/'re-imagining' of the 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing, reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (also known as Dirty Dancing 2 or Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights) is a 2004 American dance musical romance film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson, January Jones, and Mika Boorem.