Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance

LINDSAY GUARINO is an associate professor of dance and chair of the Department of
Music, Theatre and Dance at Salve Regina University. CARLOS R.A. JONES is the associate dean of the school of Arts and Sciences and professor of musical theatre and dance at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. WENDY OLIVER is a professor of dance and chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Film at Providence College.