Beguine (dance) Beguine (dance) The beguine is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, where in local Creole "Beke" or "Begue" means a White person, and "Beguine" is the female form. It is a combination of Latin folk dance and French ballroom dance, and is a spirited but slow, close dance with a roll of the hips (a movement inherited from rumba) After Cole Porter wrote the song "Begin the Beguine", the dance became more widely known beyond the Caribbean. The song was introduced in
It's De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection and "Anything Goes" in 2008's "Fallout 3" and 2015's "Fallout 4". The album was released just prior to the July 2, 2004 premier of the Cole Porter biopic "De-Lovely" starring Kevin Kline. The original 1934 version of "You're the Top" plays over the end credits. From the liner notes written by jazz critic Will Friedwald: "What's special about this collection is that the selections you will hear are of Porter's own era, the performances that he himself heard when the songs were still fresh...Yet though the range of performers is extremely diverse, they all have two things in common. First,