Calypso.
pop dance was orginated in the eraly 50's
The name is not the issue, the issue is the Caribbean dance festival
yes it is
There are a lot of Visayan dances. The most popular is the well know bamboo dance "Tinikling" which orginated from Leyte. The other popular dance is the Itik Itik where dancers imitate the waddling of ducklings.
which people brough maypole to the caribbean
It was the mambo dance
There are quite a few styles of dance from the Caribbean, including Caribbean quadrille. If you want to know about the local traditions, you need to research the indigenous tribes, the main ones being the Caribs and the Arawaks.
The rhumba (or rumba) is a rhythmic and syncopated Cuban dance in duple time.
The Beguine
spanish rhythms
Yes, gumboot is a dance that originated in South Africa, not the Caribbean. It emerged in the mining communities where workers would wear gumboots and use rhythmic foot stomping and body movements to communicate and entertain. While there are various dance forms in the Caribbean, gumboot is distinctively linked to South African cultural heritage.
There must be lots of kinds of dance. The only one I can name is the Caribbean quadrille.