Jazz Dance?

Here's something from Dance Magazine (August 2004):

Vicki Adams Willis, artistic director of the Calgary, Alberta-based Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, insists that Jazz dance can't exist without jazz music.

As for jazzy pieces set to pop music, she says, "I just wish it wasn't called Jazz. Pop music resonates through body in a very different way, and the resulting movement aesthetic is very different from what would happen if you danced to jazz and honored the music."

Hmm... Is she being too harsh? But when we say jazz dance, what is it that we are really saying?

Hmm... dancers... what you think?