Limbo (dance)

The Limbo is a dance that has its origins on the West Indian island of Trinidad. He was traditionally danced a week after a funeral. One word description comes from Trinidadian English from: limbo for English limber " pliable, supple ".

Historical roots could be due to the crossing in the very flat cargo holds of ships for the slave transport in the memory. The Limbo is a popular fun dance and party item all over the world and is known to many as a typical and less serious party game of entertainers for the amusement of package tourists. The aim of the dance is to dance through to Caribbean rhythms and with bent backwards back under a horizontal pole without touching it. To increase the difficulty of the rod is attached to or held deeper gradually ever. The knees and shoulders must or should it touch the ground in principle not. In this sense, also expressed the German - Cuban choreographer Jorge Gonzalez after a television program corresponding control points that were raised, however, limiting the extent that the world records were achieved with knees on the floor. The Guinness Book of World Records wrote the world record of 16.5 cm for 1987 Marlene Simons. Since 2010, it lists Shemika Charles with 21.5 cm ( 8.5 inches ) as the dancer with the lowest limbo.