The limbo was invented in Trinidad and Tobago

One Things About Trinidad and Tobago You Should Know is that the limbo was invented in the country. Despite its origins in Trinidad and Tobago, the limbo has become a globally recognized dance competition. Two vertical others (or people) hold up a horizontal stick, allowing players to arch backwards to pass below it. Players take turns passing beneath, hoping to "limbo" low enough to avoid touching the horizontal stick. Each time a player hits the stick by accident, they are eliminated and the stick is dragged lower and lower. This process is repeated until only one person remains, who is declared the winner.

The Limbo dance began as a tradition at Trinidad and Tobago wakes, and was popularized by dance pioneer Julia Edwards (dubbed "the First Lady of Limbo") and her group, who starred in numerous films, including "Fire Down Below" (1957), and toured globally in the 1960s and beyond. Sonja Dumas, a Trinidadian/American dance researcher/choreographer, created the video "Julia and Joyce" in 2010, which depicts the history of the Limbo and Julia Edwards' influence to its popularity growth. In nineteenth-century Trinidad, the limbo was supposed to represent prisoners boarding the galleys of a slave ship or a ghost passing over into the afterlife, or "limbo."