Calinda

Calinda

Calinda, dance of the Negroes in America, 1783, watercolour by François Aimé Louis Dumoulin
Also known as	Kalinda, kalenda
Focus	Stick Fighting
Country of origin	Trinidad and Tobago  Jamaica
Parenthood	Old Kalenda

Calinda (also spelled kalinda or kalenda) is a martial art, as well as a kind of folk music and war dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. It was brought to the Caribbean by Africans In the transatlantic slave trade and is based on native African combat dances.