It depends on the sport. It's not very physically demanding to play Golf, but you better believe your sweet patootie that Boxing requires immense physical demand. Many of the traditional Olympic sports are very, very physical and require many years of training just to do a few things. One could certainly learn and perfect more dance moves in less time than it takes to learn and perfect one gymnastic move.
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There is no official sport that helped dance originate. Dance was invented on its own. More recent examples of dances are the Salsa, the Robot, and the Twists.
Dance may be considered both a performing art and a sport. But only competitive dance (as with the similar form of gymnastics) might be considered an actual sport. For example, figure skating is a sport which is essentially athletic dancing. Dance shares attributes with traditional sports, such as physical development, coordination, practicing, and defined rules.
Some people consider dancing to be a sport as it can be done competitively. However other people do not believe it is a sport as the scoring is done by subjective judging rather than scoring points as in more conventional sports.
acro is a type of dance which is when you learn many gymnastic steps but without mats and insted of having your back straight alot in gymnastics, in acrobatics you bend your back much more. Acrobatics is much more of a flexible sport than gymnastics is.
This is because ballet dancers are usually part of a ballet company which is more consistent and stable than other dance jobs. Ballet dancer's steps are generally more technically demanding than other dancers so more skill and practice is required.