How was the art form of limbo dancing developed?

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How was the art form of limbo dancing developed?

i am doing an sba assignment and i would like to know how was limbo dancing developed and its use in tourism also a list of some dancers

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Limbo dancing first arose on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. The name of the dance is related to the word "limber," because you have to be very limber to do the dance. How it arose is a mystery—like Irish step-dancing, its origins are shrouded in myth. The most popular theory is that it grew out of exercises Africans performed to maintain their strength in the appallingly cramped conditions of the slave ships bringing them to the Americas.

As a tourist device the dance is very simple: it's like a party game, getting people excited and frolicsome so that they spend more money on drinks and trinkets. Unfortunately there aren't really any popular limbo dancers, since it's more a participatory dance than a spectator sport. However, the popularity of the dance outside the Caribbean is attributed to Holly Betaudier and Julia Edwards, who pioneered the limbo as an art dance.