舞蹈研究（英語：dance research）是對舞蹈的研究，包括舞蹈史、民族舞蹈學、舞蹈理論、舞蹈人類學和舞蹈科學。
舞蹈研究學科的誕生並不久遠。 1967年，《CORD舞蹈研究年刊》第一卷寫道：「…舞蹈研究中最嚴重的問題之一是研究該領域的文人還不是大學生」。[1]
舞蹈科學是對舞蹈和舞者的科學研究，致力於科學原理在舞蹈中的實際應用，類似於體育科學。其目標是提高表現、減少傷害以及改善福祉和健康。
- 舞蹈研究大會（原舞蹈研究委員會，成立於1965年）
- 民族音樂學會
- 舞蹈史學者協會
- 跨文化舞蹈資源
- Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2014. 「Trading Virtue for Virtuosity: The Artistry of Kinshasa's Concert Danseuses.」 African Arts 47(4): 48-57.Castaldi, Francesca. 2006. Choreographies of African Identities: Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
- Cohen, Adrienne. 2016. 「Inalienable Performances, Mutable Heirlooms: Dance, Cultural Inheritance, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea.」 American Ethnologist 43(4): 650-662.
- Daniel, Yvonne. 1995. Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Foster, Susan Leigh. 1996. Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge Culture and Power. Edited by Susan Leigh Foster. London: Routledge.
- Dunham, Katherine. 1969. Island possessed. University of Chicago Press.
- Franko, Mark. "Dance and the political: States of exception." Dance Research Journal (2006): 3-18.
- Ross, Janice. 2015. Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia. Yale University Press.
- Schauert, Paul. 2015. Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Indiana University Press.
- Wilcox, Emily. 2018. Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy. University of California Press.
