Beguine (dance)

{{Short description|Dance and music form popular in the 1930s}} {{distinguish|biguine}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox dance | name = Beguine | etymology = {{langx|gcf|begue}} | genre = [[Ballroom dance]], [[Latin dance]] | origin = [[Guadeloupe]], [[Martinique]] }} The '''beguine''' ({{IPAc-en|b|ə|ˈ|ɡ|iː|n}} {{respell|bə|GHEEN}})<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/beguine|title=beguine, noun |publisher=Oxford University Press |website=Oxford Learner's Dictionaries |access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> 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 the local [[Antillean Creole]] language, ''beke'' or ''begue'' means a [[White people|White man]] while ''beguine'' is the [[Grammatical gender|female form]]. It is a combination of [[Latin dance|Latin folk dance]] and French [[ballroom dance]], and is a spirited yet slow, close dance with a roll of the hips,<ref>{{cite web | author=Sarah James | url=https://www.heykiki.com/blog/2013/02/27/spotlight-beguine-dance/ | title=Spotlight: Beguine Dance | date=27 February 2013 | accessdate=7 December 2018 | df=dmy-all}}</ref> a movement inherited from rhumba.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Chris & Terri Cantrell |date=2005 |title=Rumba Characteristics | url=http://www.rounddancing.net/dance/articles/guest/cantrell/RumbaCharacteristicsCantrell.pdf | format=PDF | access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref>

After [[Cole Porter]] wrote the song "[[Begin the Beguine]]", the dance became more widely known beyond the Caribbean. The song was introduced in Porter's ''[[Jubilee (musical)|Jubilee]]'' musical (1935).

In 1984, Italian pop music duo [[Al Bano and Romina Power]] released the song "Al ritmo di beguine (Ti amo)" from their album ''Effetto amore''.

==See also== *[[Biguine]]

== References == {{reflist|30em}}

[[Category:Ballroom dance]] [[Category:Latin dances]]