Calinda
Martial art, folk music and war dance in the Caribbean
- Type
- war dance, martial arts, music genre, type of dance, type of fighting style
Calinda (also spelled kalinda or kalenda) is a martial art, as well as a kind of folk music and war dance in the Caribbean that 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.
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Facts from Wikidata Q2741465 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.