Jazz dance. The steps and essential style of jazz dancing, originated from dances of Africans brought to the America as slaves.[1][2] Originally, the term jazz dance encompassed any dance done to jazz music, including both tap dance and jitterbug. read more
Until the middle of 1950s, the term "jazz dance" often referred to tap dance, because tap dancing (set to jazz music) was the main performance dance of the era. During the later jazz age, popular forms of jazz dance were the Cakewalk, Black Bottom, Charleston, Jitterbug, Boogie Woogie, Swing dancing and the related Lindy Hop. read more