“🇹🇹 LIMBO dance. Invented in Trinidad. Our National Dance. A marvel that originated amongst the African descendants on the island, limbo is actually a funeral wake ritual of the Shango devotees in Trinidad. LIMBO is a sacred Trinidadian funeral dance in which participants bend backward at the waist to pass under a horizontal bamboo pole amid singing and drumming. The movement under the bar enacts a suspension between two worlds, quite fitting for our transition at death. The genesis of the rit