01x04 - Angelina and the Hip Hop Kid/Angelina and the Broken Fiddle

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ She's a dancing star

♪ She loves to twirl all day

♪ She's gonna go far

♪ That's the angelina way

♪ Follow your dreams wherever they take you ♪

♪ You can succeed

♪ Don't let anything shake you ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ The little star with big dreams ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

[Bell ringing]

- [Laughs]

Yay! Recess!

I get to play with all my friends.

And today I might even make a new friend.

There's a new kid named a.z. Who's just started school.

I hope he's nice.

[Hip-hop music]

♪

That must be a.z.

- [Gasps]

I didn't know he was a hip-hop dancer.

- Neither did i.

- This is so exciting.

I've always wanted to learn hip-hop.

- Okay, come on up, and I'll teach you.

[All gasp]

- [Giggles]

- [Sighs]

- You need a lot of energy for hip-hop.

You need to know acrobatics too, like this.

Breaking is when you land and freeze.

- Huh? - Huh?

[Gasps]

- Oof!

- Then there's popping...

And locking...

When you move your arms super fast.

You put it all together.

Make a few b*at box sounds if you want.

[b*at-boxing]

And it's hip-hop.

- Hi, a.z.

I'm angelina.

- Pleased to meet you.

- [Laughs]

We're dancers too, ballerinas.

- I wish I could hip-hop.

I've never been able to get the hang of it.

- I can help you.

You'll do great,

Especially since you're already ballerinas.

- [Squeals]

Oh, wonderful!

[Giggles]

[Classical piano music playing]

♪

Come on in, a.z.

We love visitors.

- A.z. Isn't here to watch.

He's joining our ballet class.

- I'm lucky you have room for me.

[Hip-hop music]

- This is so amazing.

We have a new student with new ideas.

- But he's not a ballet dancer.

He's a super-good hip-hopper, and he's really nice,

But that doesn't mean he can do ballet.

- Come, students.

The barre is waiting for us to warm up.

[Slow classical music]

- Plies, dancers, deep plies.

- Oh, what do you call that?

[Hip-hop music]

- I don't know.

Ballet-hop?

He's got good rhythm,

But I don't think that's ballet.

- Now let's stretch our legs up, up, up

And onto the barre.

- [Giggles]

I've never seen anyone do that in ballet class.

- It must be a hip-hop warm-up.

- And now, finally, port de bras

Side to side.

- [b*at-boxing]

- Ballet positions to b*at box sounds?

Hmm, that's different.

- Good, a.z., But a little less bouncing,

And please listen to the music I'm playing,

Not the music you're making.

Okay, time to learn our new dance.

One group dances today while the other group watches.

Okay, now let's do a pas de chat across the floor.

[School bell rings]

That's it for today, darling dancers.

Please practice the steps we learned.

We'll perform these steps in a pas de deux recital.

I'll tell you your partners next class.

- Oh.

- See you later, partners.

[Bongo beats]

- A.z.'S a really, truly good dancer,

And it's fun to have him in class,

But I don't want him as my partner,

And neither does gracie.

- Why not?

What's wrong with a.z.?

- [Sighs]

Oh, wait a minute.

I just sat on something.

Uh?

- Yay!

You found my lost mallet.

- There's nothing wrong with a.z.

[Sighs]

It's just that he's a hip-hop dancer.

- I thought you and your friends loved hip-hop.

- [Sighs]

Ooh-ooh.

Huh?

- Yippee!

You're finding everything I lost this morning.

- We like a.z.,

And he said he'd teach us hip-hop.

But this is ballet class.

[Sighs]

[Sighs]

[Gasps] uh?

[Chiming]

- Yay!

My xylophone.

Now we can be a band.

Come on, mum.

[Cheerful music]

- I need a true ballerina partner

For the pas de deux,

Not a hip-hop dancer who might ruin everything.

- I'm a true ballerina.

I can do a pas de doosy.

- [Laughing]

- See?

Polly just started dancing,

And she's a true ballerina.

- I'm a ballerina.

- You are.

You're polly ballerina.

[Both giggle]

- Do you think that maybe

There isn't just one kind of ballet dancer?

- Maybe not.

Ballet dancers come in different shapes and sizes.

And some come from different countries

Where they speak other languages.

- And some ballet dancers are gymnasts too, like alice.

- And xylophone-playing ballet dancers.

[Piano music]

- And mouseling family ballet dancers.

[Laughter]

- I hope, hope, hope with parmesan on top

That a.z. Is my partner.

He's so original.

- A.z.'S a good dancer,

But we're not sure

How the pas de deux will be with him.

- And gracie and I practice together a lot,

So we're already a good pair.

- We have an even number of dancers,

So everybody gets a partner.

Now, you two will be together.

James goes with gracie.

- Oh.

- And a.z. And angelina are a pair.

Everybody stretch to the stars.

- Oh.

[Jaunty classical music]

♪

[Crowd chanting] - hip-hop! A.z.!

- Ooh?

[Crowd chanting] - hip-hop! A.z.!

Yeah!

- Come on, angelina.

Dance like this.

- [Gasps]

Uh.

- Angelina?

Angelina?

Time to practice.

- Hmm.

- Come on, partner.

- Oh.

Should we try the pas de chat first?

- Yeah.

[Classical music, hip-hop beats]

- That's a little weird for ballet--

Not bad but weird.

It might be better if you didn't snap.

Try holding your arms up like this.

- Mm-hmm.

- That's it.

Perfect. [Laughs]

- Let's not forget to perform our arabesques.

- [Thinking] wow, a.z.'S learning fast.

- [Laughs]

- His dancing is different from mine,

But it's really, truly good.

And he gets his leg way up in the air.

[Speaking aloud] I've always wanted

To get my leg up that far.

How do you do it?

- Just throw it up there, angelina.

You can do it.

- Thanks, a.z.

I can't believe you just started ballet.

- Actually, I started withballet.

- Wow, so you're a ballet dancer after all.

Maybe you can help me leap higher.

- Hip-hop made me a good jumper.

I learned to push down hard on my feet.

It gives you more spring.

- You're right.

It's easier this way.

[Giggles]

- You two are working splendidly together.

Let's see a grande jete.

Thud! Both: oof!

- [Chuckles]

- [Laughing]

- I'm sorry you got a.z. For a partner.

He is a nice mouseling,

But I hope he doesn't turn your pas de deux into ballet-hop.

- He's not just a hip-hop dancer like we thought.

He used to take ballet.

- You looked like you were having a blast.

- [Slurps] we were.

- I'm jealous.

Maybe a.z. Can be my partner next time.

[Giggles]

[Hip-hop music]

- Hip-hop, anyone?

- Oh, yes.

- You bet.

- Let's go.

[Laughter]

[Laughter]

- Wait.

Let's snap our fingers and make the b*at-box sounds.

- One, two, three, four.

[b*at-boxing]

- [Thinking] boy, was I wrong

To think that a.z. Couldn't be a ballet dancer.

He's a super-duper, stupendous ballet dancer.

[Applause]

[Speaking aloud] how about we do some ballet-hop?

[Hip-hop music]

♪

[Thinking] and I'm the luckiest ballerina

In mouseland.

I have the best ballet partner and hip-hop teacher.

Now it's time to meet camembert's shining stars.

- My name is kevin.

- My name is wil b.

- My name is dj t.k.

And the name of the group is black violin.

- I play the acoustic viola,

And kevin plays the electric violin.

We met in middle school,

And we ended up being good friends ever since.

I was years old when I started playing the viola.

- My mother made me start playing the violin

When I was nine years old.

But then after I played it for a while,

Then I just started to love it.

[Hip-hop beats overlay classical playing]

- We incorporate hip-hop and classical,

And we kind of mix it together.

[Black violin's brandenburg]

♪

- Brandenburg is one of the first songs

That a violinist would learn.

So we took that song,

And we kept the original beginning,

And then we decided to switch it up

And add a dj element to it

So that it has a hip-hop vibe and feel.

- ♪ Break down

- So basically, on the record,

I turn the record back and forth on certain parts of the song

To get different rhythms

Of the different instruments played on the song.

- ♪ Break down

♪ Break, break, break down

♪ Break-break, break down

♪ Break-break, break-break, break ♪

♪ Break, break-break

♪ Break down

- What do I love about the violin?

I love that I'm able to play what I feel.

♪

- We understand each other so well

That he knows when to kind of like

Lay back and let me solo and vice versa.

- Well, I like playing with wil

Because he has a kind of natural music ability,

So I get to feed off of it every day on stage,

And, um, we can make beautiful music that way.

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And today my sister, polly, and I are selling lemonade.

- Thank you. Come again.

- [Gasps] sold out.

Soon we'll have enough money

To buy that tiara in the window of the ballet shop.

Oh, I'm going to look so gorgeous in that tiara.

- Me too.

It's for both of us.

- Absolutely, positively.

We're going to share it.

Let's go and count up how much money we've made.

- Well, well, well.

What have my lovely daughters been up to today?

- We sold every last drop of lemonade at our stand.

- Yeah.

- I'm very proud of you both.

- [Gasps] daddy's got his fiddle.

Play us a song, daddy.

- Yes!

Play us something we can dance to.

- Just let me tune my fiddle first

So the strings sound right.

[Plays out-of-tune notes]

[Bright, in-tune notes]

There.

All the strings are in tune now,

So I'm ready to fiddle around.

- Daddy, how come it's called a fiddle?

It looks exactly the same as the violins

Some of my friends play at school.

- It is the same.

- The same?

- Violin and fiddle are two different names

For the same instrument,

Because there are different ways to play it.

When you play classical music, it's called a violin.

[Play regal classical music]

♪

When you play folk or bluegrass, it's called a fiddle.

[Rousing bluegrass tune]

♪

- [Laughs]

Yee-haw!

Kick off your shoes, and let's do-si-do.

- [Giggles]

Wah-hee-hee!

[Giggling excitedly]

Whee!

[Giggles]

- Oh!

[Giggling]

- Yeah!

- Uh, excuse me, ladies.

What is the rule about jumping on the bed?

- Uh...

Don't?

- That's right.

Why?

- Because we could get hurt.

- Exactly.

- Oops, sorry.

- Sorry, daddy.

- Will you still play the fiddle if we dance on the floor?

[Telephone rings]

- Sure.

- Honey, telephone.

- Coming!

I'll be right back.

- Ohh.

- Hurry back, dad.

- Don't worry. I will.

- Hmm.

[Gasps]

[Hums fiddle music]

- [Laughs]

Yee-haw!

Do-si, do-si!

- [Giggles]

Oh, swing your partner round and round!

Jump on up. Whee!

Right off the ground!

- Doo-da! Doo-da!

Whoo!

[Discordant twanging]

- [Gasps]

[String pings]

- Oh, no. The string has broken.

- And one of those peg thingies fell out.

We have to find it.

[Gasps] I don't see it.

Do you?

- Me neither.

- Oh, where did it go?

- Angelina? Polly?

I'll be up in a minute.

- Oh, no, angelina.

What are we going to do?

I don't want daddy to see the fiddle or me.

- Me neither, but we can't hide.

We have to tell him what happened.

- Maybe we could tell him

That a really big fly landed on the string and broke it

And then flew off with the peg thingy.

- He'll never believe that.

But maybe we could tell him something he would believe.

- Yeah, like maybe...

♪ We were happy dancing

♪ Making quite a din

♪ When that old fiddle saw us

♪ And wanted to join in

♪ It bounced upon the bedsprings ♪

♪ And took off in the air

♪ Now that poor old fiddle

♪ It surely needs repair

♪ Oh, how sad

♪ It's just too bad

♪ The fiddle, it came alive

♪ Hey-diddle-dee

♪ You can't blame me

♪ If it tried to jump and jive

- A jumping fiddle?

I don't think so.

But how about...

♪ All of a sudden we heard a noise ♪

♪ A mighty wind did blow

♪ The fiddle took off like a bird in flight ♪

♪ Yee-haw and do-si-do

♪ Oh, how sad

♪ It's just too bad

♪ But how that wind did roar

♪ Hey-diddle.dee

♪ You can't blame me

♪ If the fiddle's feeling sore

- Your story's silly, angelina.

Mine's much better.

- But who would believe a fiddle could jump around by itself?

- Angelina! - [Gasps]

- Oh, no. Daddy's coming.

- [Sighs] sorry that took so long.

Look who wants to join in the dance.

- Uh...

- I heard the fiddle music, and I couldn't resist.

I remember how dad used to play his fiddle for me

In the kitchen when we were first married.

- We would dance around with the dish towel

While we were drying the pots.

- You were always cleaning and tuning it,

Keeping it as fit as a fiddle.

- That's because it was passed down to me from my father,

Grandpa mouseling, who got it from his father.

One day, it will be yours.

- I didn't realize the fiddle was so precious or so old.

- Yes, well, fiddles get better with age,

As long as you take good care of them.

So?

Ready to hoedown?

Hmm.

I thought I left it right here someplace.

Have you seen my fiddle?

- Your fiddle?

Well, uh...

[Sighs]

Here it is, dad.

- But how did...

What happened?

- Well, there was this big gust of wind

That swept in and, uh...

- It was like magic.

The fiddle started jumping around.

- No, polly.

We have to tell them the truth.

[Sighs] we were dancing, and polly fell on the bed,

And the fiddle went flying.

We didn't mean to break it.

- That's why we have the rule about not jumping on the bed.

- But I'm glad you told us the truth.

Lying would have been just as bad as breaking the rules

And the fiddle.

- I didn't mean to lie.

It just popped out of my mouth.

- I made a mistake too

By not putting the fiddle back in its case to keep it safe.

- Let's go down to the kitchen

So dad can see if the fiddle can be fixed.

- We can buy a new string,

But it's going to be hard to find a tuning peg

Just like the one that's missing.

This fiddle was made by hand a long time ago.

- Oh, dad, does that mean you can't play your fiddle anymore?

- No, no. We can buy another peg.

It just won't look exactly the same.

- Hey, maybe we could buy daddy

A new string and a new peg thingy.

- But where would we get the money?

- I don't know.

- [Gasps] I know.

Polly could sell some of her toys.

- My toys?

No!

What about the lemonade money?

- But the tiara...

[Sighs] I guess you're right.

- That's a good way to take responsibility

For what you've done.

Okay, shoes on.

Let's take a walk to mrs. Thimble's store.

- [Whimpers]

[Moaning]

My shoe hurts, angelina.

- We can't stop now.

We have to get to mrs. Thimble's

So we can buy daddy's new string.

- Ooh.

- [Sighs longingly]

[Sighs]

Let's not even think about it.

Come on, polly.

- There you are.

One "e" string.

- Thank you, mrs. Thimble.

Hmm. [Sighs]

None of these tuning pegs is quite like mine.

Do you have any others?

- No, that's it.

I even checked the top shelf,

Not that I should be climbing ladders at my age.

- Then this one will have to do.

It's not perfect, but it'll work.

- Is this enough?

- [Mumbling]

- Angelina, my shoe still hurts.

- Not now, polly.

[Tapping]

- You're a bit short, I'm afraid.

- Ow!

- Okay, hand me your shoe,

And I'll have a look.

[Gasps] hey!

Look what landed in your shoe!

- The peg thingy!

[Giggles]

- Stupendous!

Now daddy has the peg that matches,

And we have enough to buy the string.

- Ha! Wonderful.

- And my shoe won't hurt anymore.

[Peg creaking against wood]

[Plucking]

[Playin tuning notes]

- There we are,

Good as new.

- [Laughs]

Let's hoedown!

[Giggling]

- [Chuckles]

What do you say we go up to the attic,

Where we'll all have more room?

[Jaunty hoedown music]

♪

- Come on, mum!

- Oh.

[Giggling]

- Hola,marco here.

Whoa, is that violin missing a middle?

[Chuckles] nah.

That's an electric violin.

It's supposed to look like that.

You plug it in,

And the music comes out of a speaker.

And over here is an acoustic viola.

"Acoustic" means the sound comes right from the instrument.

Violas and violins are string instruments

That were only used for classical music at first.

But now they are used for jazz, rock--

Oh, you name it!

Man, those guys really make the strings sing.

- Hello.

I'm angelina ballerina.

Today we're going to see some ballroom dancing.

Now, this is called merengue.

It's a latin dance from the dominican republic.

It has a two-step b*at like a march.

Right, left, right, left.

My, what a fancy dance.

Sometimes ballroom dancing is called social dancing.

But whatever you call it,

Ballroom is simply a ball.