It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right.

Now bring your knees in tight and get ready for that pelvic thrust ‘cause the choreography of this celebrated sci-fi camp opera will drive you insane — in a good way, if the company of “The Rocky Horror Show” at The Hopkins Center in Hanover has anything to do with it.

Director Carol Dunne is hoping audiences will bring the same participatory enthusiasm to this month’s stage show as movie-goers have shown since “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” debuted in the late 1970s. One caveat: hurl lines, not objects.

“We have to protect our poor actors,” Dunne said of the audience tradition of mimicking the story line by throwing such things as toilet paper and other objects at the screen version of the show.

Dunne, who is directing the all student-cast on the Dartmouth College campus, is known locally for her work with Northern Stage and New London Barn Playhouse, where she is artistic director. She also received notice for her direction of Dartmouth’s version of the musical “Hair” in 2007.

For those living in blissful ignorance of the kitschy classic, the “Rocky Horror” story follows the hapless and virginal Janet and Brad as they stumble onto the labs of Dr. Frank N. Furter. It turns out the good doctor is “just a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania,” looking to bring to life a more handsome version of the Frankestein creature. Hijinx and Rock ‘n’ Roll ensue.

The show is a cult classic with legions of dressed-up followers flocking to midnight viewings of the film each year, especially around Halloween. The film has long been fodder for audience participation, with theater-goers bringing flotsam and heckling the celluloid characters. But Dunne said she and the production team tried to look at the script with a new eye.

“We really looked at what was going on at the time the show was created,” Dunne said. “It has its roots in glam rock and punk of the early 1970s.”

Dunne said she and the creative team took inspiration for the show from the plastic- and aluminum-foil clad world of Andy Warhol, with a healthy dose of Studio 54 in its heyday.

“The idea was you could be a postal worker by day but when you went to Studio 54 at night, you could put on wings and lipstick and be something completely other,” she said. “That’s what we wanted to recreate. We wanted it to be a huge party a la Studio 54.”

Along with Dunne, the artistic team includes choreographer Gregory Daniels, whose stage credits include “Putting It Together,” starring Tony Award winners Lillias White and Chuck Cooper for the Syracuse Stage, and “All Shook Up” at the Papermill Theater, nominated for seven New Hampshire Theatre Awards. Music direction is by Louis Burkot, director of the Dartmouth College Glee Club and artistic director of Opera North. Designer, painter and sculptor Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili is set designer.

This likely goes without saying, but the show contains mature language and themes and is not recommended for young children.

“The Rocky Horror Show” at the Hopkins Center runs Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13-14, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m., and continues Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5-$14. For details, call 646-2422 or log onto hop.dartmouth.edu.