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This article is about the ballroom dance style. For other dances that go by the name jive see jive.In Ballroom dancing Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1930s. It was originally presented to the public as ‘Jive’ in 1934 by Cab Calloway. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug a form of Swing dance.