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Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles.

Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance.

In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — modern jazz dance — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance.

Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins.

Jazz was a big hit in the early 50's and it is stil a well loved style of dance all over the world