My daughter received this as a gift from Santa. What a disappointment. She has been taking ballet for 2 years now and Santa thought this would be not only fun but good exercise for the winter months. My daughter was in tears and asked "Doesn't Santa try these things out before he gives them as presents".She is a beautiful doll, but I don't think they really invested a lot of time testing these dolls. I think they just tried to get these out really quickly for Christmas. Next year Santa will try everything out first. We had a lot of disappointments with some of the 12 Dancing Princess stuff.