Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses is a 2006 animated dance film. It premiered on Nickelodeon on September 10, 2006, and it was later released to DVD on September 19.
DVD cover
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 306.
1920 illustration by Elenore Abbott
Performance of a play based on the tale in Maine in 1942