爵士舞（Jazz Dance）是非洲舞蹈的延伸，但是流行于美国。爵士舞是充满动感的多元化节奏型舞蹈，舞步揉合著刚与柔的特性。爵士舞节奏本身比较强劲、是充满动感、灵活、和富趣味的肢体活动，动作的本质是一种自由而纯朴的表现，直接把内心的感受表达出来，舞蹈的动作及音乐极富节奏感，经常练习可达到身体放松及运动的效果。

爵士舞可以表达表演者的热情奔放、充满青春跃动感受，以心灵及身体去感受，将舞蹈化为艺术表现出来，也是一种发泄和表达自己情绪的好方法。

Jazz dance is shared by a large range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance relating to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. Jazz dance was an integral part of jazz until the end of the swing era in the late 1940s. 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 1950s and it is still a well-loved style of dance all over the world.