Beguine (dance) Porter's "Jubilee" (1935). In 1984 Italian pop music duo Al Bano and Romina Power released the song "Al ritmo de beguine (Ti amo)" from their album "Effetto amore". 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
Albertina Rasch a "ballet" in which only her hands could be seen to the Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz song "Dancing in the Dark". Rasch also helped establish Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" as a popular standard by choreographing it to an ethnic dance in "Jubilee" (1935). Additional Broadway credits include "The Three Musketeers", "Show Girl", "The Bohemian Girl", "The Great Waltz", and "Lady in the Dark". Rasch served as choreographer and/or dance director for a number of musical films, including "The Merry Widow" (1934) with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, "Broadway Melody of 1936" (1936) with Jack Benny and Eleanor Powell,