text: As a parent/grandparent of athletes, I would definitely say yes.\n\nMy son was a dancer with the Sacrament Ballet.  He appeared in the Nutcracker.  He was also a good swimmer and baseball player.\n\nThe entire Okland A's baseball team does Nutcracker every year.  There is difinitely a correlation between sports and dance.\n\nI am assuming you are a runner.  As you know, most sports, and many performing arts have the same body building attributes.