- ♪ 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 ♪
- I'm angelina ballerina,
And today is one of the biggest
Days in my entire life.
- Angelina!
Polly!
Breakfast!
Oh!
You sure got down here fast.
- Today is the day
I'm meeting ms. Mimi.
- [Yawns]
Meeting ms. Who?
- Ms. Mimi,
The dance teacher
At my new school.
Miss lilly says she's wonderful.
Now, chew faster, polly,
So we can go.
- Angelina, please don't rush
Your sister.
You'll get to school on time,
And everything will be--
- Wonderful.
I just know it.
I'll be ms. Mimi's best dancer,
Just like I was
With miss lilly.
[Cheerful classical music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, angelina.
What a beautiful and talented
Young dancer you are.
- Oh, thank you, ms. Mimi.
- You're going to star
In my fall show
And my winter show
And my spring show.
From now on, the star
Of every show will be...
Angelina.
[Applauds]
- Angelina.
Angelina.
- Oops.
I was just practicing
My pirouettes for ms. Mimi.
- Me too!
[Hums]
- [Laughs]
Mum, do you think ms. Mimi
Will teach me
To do a grand jete?
That's what I was working on
With miss lilly,
And I was getting really,
Really close.
Ooh! Oh!
Oof!
[Nervous laughter]
Well, maybe not that close.
- With a lot of practice
And ms. Mimi's help,
I'm sure you'll get it soon.
- Thanks, mum.
[Bell rings]
- Hey, angelina.
Wait up!
- Hi, vici.
Hurry.
- Why are you in such a rush?
- I can't wait
To finally meet ms. Mimi.
- She's so amazing.
- I hope she'll be as amazing
As my old teacher, miss lilly.
[Gasps]
Look!
A picture of miss lilly.
- Wow, she must be
The greatest dancer
In chipping cheddar!
- And the greatest teacher.
- Well, I think ms. Mimi
Is the greatest teacher
In all of mouseland.
- Ah, second greatest, maybe.
I want to show her
My grand jete.
Whoa!
Ooh!
Oops.
- You okay?
- Uh-huh.
Maybe I just need
Some more room.
- You can try it again
In the studio.
You can do all the grand jetes
You want in here.
- [Sighs deeply]
Ooh!
- Oh!
- Oops.
Excuse me.
I'm so sorry.
- You must be angelina.
I'm ms. Mimi.
- Uh-oh.
- I've heard so much about you
From miss lilly.
- Um, did miss lilly tell you
I can do an arabesque?
Because I can.
And a saute.
And a pas de chat.
She was just about to teach me
A grand jete,
So we can work on that right now
If you want and...
- Whoa.
Not so fast, angelina.
What did miss lilly do
At the beginning of class?
- Oh, right.
Warm-up.
Of course.
- All right, class.
Warm-up time.
[Bouncy piano music]
♪ ♪
And now for some music.
How about a little jazz?
[Upbeat jazz music playing]
- Jazz?
In a ballet class?
Uh, ms. Mimi?
Miss lilly always played
Classical music,
Like mozart, during warm-up.
- Really?
But I just love jazz.
The smooth, mellow sounds
Just make me want to stretch.
- Mmm!
- Ah!
- Not first position.
Stretch.
- Sorry!
We always started
With first position.
- Now the cool jazz sounds
Are inspiring me
To bend way back like a noodle.
Can you be a noodle, angelina?
- Sure.
I guess.
- Hmm.
Let's all touch our toes.
- [Sighs]
- And wiggle our nose.
- Uh-oh...
- Angelina, I do things a little
Differently in my class.
Won't you give my way a try?
- Yes, of course.
- And now let's all do
A jazzy pirouette.
- That looked
Like a ballet pirouette.
- With ms. Lilly, we always did
Plain pirouettes
Without all that jazz.
[Bell rings]
- Lunchtime!
After we eat, we'll meet
In the lunchtime theater.
- Are you okay, angelina?
- I'm just not used to ballet
With jazz...
Or noodles.
If I can't even be a noodle
With ms. Mimi,
I'll probably never learn to do
A grand jete.
Oh, miss lilly.
My new class is so different,
And I keep messing up.
Ms. Mimi does so many things
I don't understand.
I'm afraid I might never learn
How to do a grand jete.
[Sighs]
[Twinkling]
- Places, everybody.
You too, angelina.
Today we are going to do
The most difficult dance
We ever created.
- Oh?
- It's called the moon dance,
And only my very best students
Are good enough to do this.
So let's put on our imaginary
Space helmets.
Angelina, you too.
All right, everybody,
Let's walk on the moon.
Come on, everybody.
Follow me!
Come on, angelina.
You're lagging behind!
- Oh!
Oof!
[Gasps]
Ugh!
- Hurry, angelina!
Hurry!
Hurry!
- Wait!
Wait for me!
Wait!
Please!
Wait!
I can't let that happen.
I have to make this afternoon's
Dance class
Go much, much better.
But how?
I know!
You always said
To try my hardest
And put my best toe forward.
Thanks for the great advice,
Miss lilly.
Sorry I'm late, everybody,
But I'm ready to go.
Jazzy pirouettes or noodles
Or whatever ms. Mimi wants.
I'm all set, ms. Mimi.
What should we do first?
- Let's try flying.
- Oh, yeah!
- Cool!
- Um...
- Let's all float through
The air like little butterflies.
- Miss lilly never did this.
- Are you a ladybug, vici?
Excellent.
And what are you, angelina?
- Um...uh...
Ah, a bumblebee!
- Good.
Now swoop around and buzz.
- No, there's actually
A bumblebee,
And it's coming right at me!
Shoo!
Leave me alone!
Whoa!
Ooh!
- Angelina, are you okay?
- Not really.
I can't seem to do
Anything right.
- [Gasps]
- I'm just a failure.
[Cries]
- You know, angelina,
My first day at dance class
Was a disaster too.
- Really?
You?
- Goodness, I couldn't do
Anything right.
I thought miss lilly
Didn't like me.
- What--
What did you do?
- I started to listen.
I gave up the idea that my way
Was the only way,
And suddenly I began to learn.
So when I asked you
To be a noodle...
- You were telling me
To be more open to new ideas,
Like being a bug
Or a bumblebee.
But that bee, the way it hops
From flower to flower,
It's--it's almost like dancing.
Ms. Mimi,
I know how to do it now.
Watch.
Watch.
- Brava, angelina.
A flawless grand jete.
- I listened to you, ms. Mimi.
I pretended I was a bumblebee,
And I flew!
Oh, ms. Mimi, I promise
I'll listen from now on.
I'll be a really,
Really good student.
- My dear angelina,
You already are.
- ♪ Change can be
A little hard to swallow ♪
♪ You never know
Where you will be tomorrow ♪
♪ The future's fresh and bright,
So why not take a giant bite? ♪
♪ You'll amaze them when you put
Your best toe forward ♪
♪ When you're reaching
For the stars ♪
♪ And step by step ♪
♪ You'll find the way ♪
♪ So put your best toe forward ♪
♪ Every day ♪
- How's your new teacher,
Angelina?
- Wonderful.
- As wonderful as miss lilly?
- Well, she's different
Than miss lilly.
But, mum, in her own way,
She's every bit as wonderful.
Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- Hi, I'm anthony.
- My name is pascal.
- My name is giovanna.
- I'm juliet,
And we are the american ballroom
Theater youth dance company.
[Lively swing music]
♪ ♪
One of the dances I love to do
Is the swing.
- It's a swing;
You're swinging around,
Having fun.
[Together] whoo!
Whoo!
- At first it was like,
"Ew, I'm dancing with a boy."
- I like dancing with a partner,
Because you really
Have to trust your partner,
And you can't
Just rely on yourself.
- When anthony dances,
He's very crazy.
- When pascal dances,
It's, like, so clean,
And it's just like,
"Wow, who's that guy?"
- When I'm dancing,
It's just like
I could float on water;
I could fly.
[Upbeat latin music]
- The merengue
Is a really fun dance.
- I'm dominican,
So merengue, it just--
That defines dominican.
- I feel like a star
When I'm dancing
And performing onstage.
- The choreography
Just comes naturally.
I just practice it
A couple of times,
And then afterwards,
You just do it.
- It's not only, like,
Brain memory;
It's, like, muscle memory,
'Cause you have to not think
About the steps.
That way you don't get nervous.
- Dancing's just the best thing
In the world.
- I'm angelina ballerina,
And there's nothing I love more
Than dancing
With my very best friend.
[Whimsical classical music]
♪ ♪
Ooh!
Stupendous, alice.
You can do all the steps
I make up,
Even the really hard ones.
Both: alice and angelina,
Friends forever.
- ♪ Na na, na, na na,
Na, na na ♪
♪ A friend will be there
If you stumble ♪
♪ Or stick around
To keep you humble ♪
♪ Good friends make the world
A better place ♪
♪ It's so, so much fun ♪
♪ The good times
You know have just begun ♪
♪ If you wanna be cool
Let friendship through ♪
♪ Friendship is forever ♪
♪ Together you and me,
Whoa ♪
♪ Friendship is forever ♪
[Giggling]
- I can't wait for you
To be my partner
In the showcase tomorrow.
- It will be our first time
Dancing together
At your new school.
We have to be extra good.
I have an idea.
What if we end our dance
With a twirl?
Or a leap?
Or a cartwheel?
- Actually, I've made up
All the steps for our dance,
And a cartwheel is not in it.
- Oh.
Okay.
- Hi, girls.
I came up to have a peek
At your new dance.
- Here's a few of the steps
I made up.
- Nice choreography, angelina.
- Choreography?
- A choreographer
Creates a dance,
Like an author creates a story.
- Wow!
I love being a choreographer.
- And I know dancing
Makes little girls very hungry.
- Yes, I'm starving.
- I've brought you
Some lovely sandwiches.
Now I'm off
To check on polly.
- Thanks, mum.
- Thank you.
- Poor polly's in bed.
She has the sniffles.
- My dad says almost everybody
In chipping cheddar
Has the sniffles.
But we don't.
- So...
Both: we can dance and dance!
Yay!
- Bye, alice!
- See you tomorrow.
- This will be the best
Dance-with-a-partner
Showcase ever,
'Cause I have the best partner
Ever.
[School bell rings]
- Attention, dancers!
Marco will be my helper today.
- Don't forget,
All dancers in the
Dance-with-a-partner showcase
Must have a partner.
- Vici's going to be my partner.
- Gracie and I are going to do
A hip-hop dance, ms. Mimi.
- I'm dancing ballet with alice,
My absolutely, positively
Best friend
From my old neighborhood.
- Wow.
Alice is coming to the showcase?
- Uh-huh.
- Have you and alice
Been practicing?
- Yes.
A lot.
I did some really fancy
Choreography for our dance.
- Well, we didn't plan ours.
We make up new moves
As we go along.
[Giggles]
- [Gasps]
- Hey, it's fun.
[Percussive hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- [Gasps]
Stupendous!
- We just dance with the music.
- It's called improvising.
- We use steps we know,
But we don't plan the order.
- So our dance is a little bit
New and different each time.
[Giggles]
Don't you want
To improvise, too, angelina?
- I don't think so.
[Twinkling]
[Applause]
- You and your partner did
A wonderful job in the showcase,
Angelina.
Congratulations.
- Thank you, ms. Mimi.
- Your choreography
Was brilliant.
- And thank you, angelina.
We did all the steps,
Just like you said to,
And we didn't
Make any mistakes.
Hooray!
[Crowd chanting] angelina!
Angelina!
Angelina!
Angelina!
Angelina!
- Angelina!
I can't find our music player,
And we need it
For our showcase dance.
- I have an extra player
At my house.
I'll lend it to you.
- Oh, thank you, angelina.
Thank you.
Wow, you saved me.
You're such a good friend.
- No problem, vici.
[Phone rings]
Hello?
Angelina ballerina speaking.
- Angelina, it's alice.
I have the sniffles.
Isn't that horrible?
So I can't be your partner,
And we can't be in the showcase.
- I'm so sorry, alice.
I hope you feel better soon.
- Oh, angelina,
Our dance would have been
Incredible.
Achoo!
Oh, I hope you find
Another partner.
- Alice, I'm so sorry.
I can't believe
My terrible luck.
Alice got the sniffles,
And now I don't have a partner.
What am I going to do?
[Doorbell rings]
- Angelina!
Here's your music player back.
Guess what happened.
Gracie can't be in the showcase.
She has the sniffles.
- Oh, poor gracie.
Alice has them too.
- Poor alice.
Well, see you later,
I guess.
- Vici, wait!
How about if you and I
Become partners?
- Dancing with you is going
To be so amazing, angelina.
- Come on, I'll teach you
All of my steps!
- Okay,
And then we'll improvise.
Let's try some new stuff too.
[Lively classical music]
♪ ♪
[Hip-hop music]
- [Gasps]
♪ ♪
[Lively classical music]
[Hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
Ow!
Ow!
Hey.
That's not ballet.
- No, but it's fun.
- But you have to do the steps
My way,
'Cause I'm the choreographer.
- Huh?
Well, then maybe you should
Dance all by yourself,
Angelina ballerina.
See you later.
- [Sighs]
I could be great
At the showcase.
I know I could.
[Gasps]
All I need is a partner
Who can learn my dance.
Hmm.
Hello.
How do you do?
Perfect.
- Oh, vici, I'm so sorry to hear
Gracie has the sniffles.
- Ms. Mimi said to tell you,
You and your partner are going
To dance first
In the showcase.
Wow.
That's your partner?
- Yes.
- But she's not real.
- Of course she is.
She's a real dancing doll.
- Hmm.
The rules don't say,
"No dancing dolls."
- Good.
- But they don't say
They're okay either.
I'm not sure about this,
Angelina.
- Oh?
Ms. Mimi, I wish I could dance
In the showcase.
- You really want to be
In the showcase, don't you?
- Yes, I really do.
- And are you willing
To work hard?
- Mm-hmm.
- Then I'll give you
Some extra time
To come up with a routine,
And instead of going first,
I'll let you and your partner
Dance last today.
- My partner?
- I just know the two of you
Can work together.
- Oh, I'm sorry, vici.
- No, it was my fault.
[Hip-hop and classical music]
♪ ♪
- How come
We can't make it work?
- I don't know.
- I have an idea.
Maybe instead of dancing
At the same time,
You could take turns.
- Hmm.
Well, it's worth a try.
Okay, we're ready.
[Lively classical music]
- [Chuckles]
♪ ♪
[Hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
[Lively classical music]
♪ ♪
[Hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
[Two songs fuse together]
[Cheers and applause]
- That was a very original
And exciting piece,
And I loved the choreography.
What hardworking and creative
Mouselings you are.
[Cheers and applause]
Take a bow, girls.
All three of you.
- Hello.
I'm angelina ballerina.
Today we're going to see
Some ballroom dancing.
That's where people dance
Together as partners.
This is called "swing dancing."
It started back in the s
With a kind of jazz music
Called "swing."
It takes a lot of practice
To work well with your partner
So you know what to do next.
See how they move in time
To the music?
Every step matches the tempo
And each other.
They're simply stupendous.
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.
03x02 - Angelina's New Ballet Teacher / Angelina's Dance Partner
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British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.
British childrens series about Angelina Mouseling, a young mouse who loves dancing ballet, her family, and her classmates.