About how many calories does dancing burn?

Question:around how many calories would 2 hours of advanced ballet burn for a 158 cm., 45 kg, 13 year old girl? also same question but for 2 hrs. of acro (acrobatics)

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I'm actually using this thing on ivillage.com that you can record the calories you eat and how many you burn by doing different activities. Some of the dance lessons I've recorded burn like 400 calories for a 90 minute class, some wya more!

a lot...

a lot

actually not as many as you think. Dance is classified as a high intensity short duration exercise. The exercises that burn the most calories are low or high intensity at long durations such as walking, running or bicycling. These burn calories by elevating your heart rate for a long period of time. In dance your doing high intensity activity for short spurts of time so your heart rate doesn't stay up. In reality you only burn about 200-300 calories an hour.

well tap burns 336 per hour