- ♪ 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 I'm meeting alice
At school early
So we can practice.
But where is she?
- Here I am.
Let's go.
- [Clears throat]
Twirling till the day is done.
Time to say,
"Good night, dear sun."
Tomorrow is a brand-new day,
Another chance to dance.
Hurray!
[Clapping]
- Oh, I love your poem.
- Thanks.
Now it's your turn.
Oh, look.
A purple butterfly.
- Oh, how pretty.
- I wonder if I can hold it.
- Look, its wings
Are fluttering faster.
Oh, angelina, we scared it.
- Bye, beautiful butterfly.
- Bye.
Okay.
Now I'll recite my poem.
[School bell rings]
- We're late for dance class.
- Come on.
You can practice your poem
On the way.
- I love to spring.
I love to hop.
I love to flip.
I cannot stop.
I love to--
Um, uh--
Oh, no.
I practiced all last night.
- You'll remember it, alice.
- [Gasps]
What if I forget the words
To my poem
When I'm in front
Of the whole class?
- Yo, angelina and alice.
Don't be late.
- Let's go.
You can practice
In dance class.
[Jazzy music and snapping]
♪
- Book down, alice.
It's time to catwalk.
- What a cool name
For a dance step.
- It's a jazz dance step.
Now, everyone,
Stand straight as a pencil.
[Laughter]
Let's do a few catwalks and then
Spin around like a pencil.
- [Grunting]
- Whoa!
- [Laughs]
- Yeah!
Jazz dancing is the best.
- Yeah!
- Those are just two jazz steps.
There are a lot more.
- I want to learn
All the steps.
- Today we'll concentrate
On a fun part of jazz:
Improvisation.
- Like in jazz music.
You can take the tune
And play it in your own way.
Right?
- Exactly.
Once you know
Some of the basics,
You can make up
Your own dance.
- Oh, hurray!
- Let me give you the steps.
Catwalk,
Pencil turn,
And a fan kick.
And jump over a log.
[Laughter]
Now you can put the steps
Together in your own way.
- I'll go first.
- Now, everyone,
Improvise.
- Come on, alice.
Let's jump over a log.
- Excellent.
- Yeah!
- We'll do more jazz dancing
Next class.
- Hurray!
- Yeah!
Thanks, ms. Mimi.
- Now it's poem time.
- Oh, no.
- I want to recite
My poem first.
- I'll be second.
- I love to spring.
I love to hop.
I love to flip.
I cannot stop.
I love to--
Oh, no.
I forgot it again.
- Alice?
- Tomorrow is a brand-new day,
Another chance to dance.
Hurray!
[Applause]
- That was great, angelina.
- Good rhyming.
- And now it's alice's turn.
But where is she?
- [Sighs]
Hello, butterfly.
- Oh, what a fabulous butterfly.
- [Sighs]
- Alice, are you all right?
- My tummy
Feels a little funny.
- Oh, dear.
Do you need to see
The school nurse?
- [Sighs]
I don't feel sick,
Just, my tummy feels funny.
- Alice, you weren't in class
To recite your poem.
- I didn't want
To forget the words
In front of everyone.
- Oh, poem day, huh?
- We have to stand in front
Of the whole class...
- And recite our poems
All by ourselves.
- See this butterfly?
It reminds me
Of when I used to get worried
Before my performances.
- It does?
- Yes.
Sometimes I would get
Tummy butterflies.
- What?
Huh?
- Butterflies?
- Tummy?
I do not understand.
- It's when your tummy
Feels funny, not sick,
But like it's got
Fluttering butterflies inside.
- I think I have
Tummy butterflies right now.
- I've had tummy butterflies.
- So have i.
- Me too.
- When I get scared,
It helps me to talk louder.
- When I have to stand up
In front of everyone,
I just pretend that
They're all in their pajamas
And their hair looks funny.
[Laughter]
- I can try those things too.
- Guess what, alice.
Mr. Hopper said that whoever
Didn't recite a poem today
Will get to do theirs
Tomorrow...
- Okay.
I can do it.
- On the lunchtime
Theater stage
For the whole school.
- [Gasps]
Oh, no.
My tummy butterflies
Are back.
- Try it once for us, alice.
- It's always good to practice.
- Okay.
I love to spring.
I love to hop.
I love to flip.
I cannot stop.
I love to--
Oh, no.
- Don't worry, alice.
Let's practice jazz steps now,
And you can try again later.
[Jazzy piano music and snapping]
♪
- Fan kick.
- Come on, alice.
- [Laughs]
[Laughter]
I wish reciting my poem
Was this much fun.
- You'll do great tomorrow,
Alice.
I know you'll remember
Every word.
What if alice doesn't remember
Her poem tomorrow?
[Sighs]
I just wish I could take away
Her tummy butterflies.
[Sweet instrumental music]
♪
Oh, hello.
What did you say?
Are you talking
About my friend alice?
Oh, that's an idea.
An excellent idea.
- I love to spring.
I love to hop.
I love to flip.
I cannot stop.
Girls: alice.
- Over here.
- Regarde, alice.
- Huh?
- Time for the butterfly
Jazz dance.
- Oh, for me?
- Oui,
For you.
[Jazzy piano music]
♪
[Jazzy music and snapping]
- Yeah!
- Hey, alice.
It's your turn
To recite your poem.
- But I'm dancing.
- I bet you can dance and say
Your poem at the same time.
- Huh?
- [Clears throat]
Girls: I love to jump.
I love to hop.
- I love to flip.
I cannot stop.
Another flip,
I'm upside down.
I love
To turn the world around.
[Applause]
I did it.
I remembered all the words.
- Good job.
You forgot to think
About the tummy butterflies,
So they disappeared.
Oh, look.
- Come, butterfly.
Looks like you love
Jazz dance too.
- Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- My name is tiffany.
- I'm stephanie.
- I'm brittany.
- I'm lisa.
- We dance with new york
Chinese cultural center.
[Intense drumming]
- We're performing
The lion dance.
This dance
Is over , years old.
And usually it's danced
To celebrate during festivals.
♪
- The lions are played
By two people.
One is the head,
And one is the tail.
- They're good lions.
♪
- The little girls
Play with the lion.
And all together,
We try to scare
The evil spirits away
And bring in good luck.
♪
- When you first learn
How to do a cartwheel,
You just can't stop.
The musicians,
They follow along
As we go on in the dance.
♪
During more exciting parts
In the dance,
The music gets louder.
- My part in the dance
Is to tease the lion.
And the lion kind of scares me,
So I have to tease him back.
♪
I get to jump on the lion's back
And ride on him.
Sometimes
It's a little bit hard,
'Cause I have to jump high.
♪
- Chinese dance
Sometimes has acrobatics
To, like, make it feel,
Like, joyful.
♪
- It's fun,
And I love wearing makeup.
♪
[School bell rings]
- That music makes me
Want to tap-dance.
And yippee!
Ms. Mimi is teaching us
Tap dance.
We're starting with soft-shoe,
But soon we'll do it
With tap shoes.
The soft-shoe
Is great fun, though,
So we're not in a hurry.
- Wait till we put on
The tap shoes
And start really dancing.
- Well, most of us
Aren't in a hurry.
- While you're learning
Tap dance,
I'm learning magic.
My uncle gave me this book.
Want to see a trick?
Both: yes, let's see one.
- Abracadabra.
Alamajere.
Watch me pull coins
From behind this nice ear.
- Ow!
- Voila!
Oh, pardon, angelina.
But I don't think you have
The right ears for this trick.
- Shuffle forward, dancers.
Brush your feet
Against the floor.
[Wooden scraping]
Almost any tap dance you do
Will include a shuffle.
Please concentrate, gracie.
[Wooden scraping]
That's it, dancers.
Shuffle.
Sweep the floor
With the bottoms of your feet.
- My dad has some music
That would be good for tap.
Want to come over
To practice?
- Let's go.
- It sounds fun,
But I've been tap-dancing
For almost my whole life.
I don't need to practice.
- Gracie, dear,
I saw that you weren't
Practicing your shuffle.
- I already know how to shuffle,
Ms. Mimi.
See?
- But it's good to brush up
On the basics.
You need to know
The beginning steps
Before moving on.
- But I do, ms. Mimi.
I really do.
Voila!
Look how fast I can do it.
There.
Better, right?
- Your tap doesn't look
Quite like ms. Mimi's, gracie.
- It looks kind of rusty.
You might need to practice
The easy stuff a teensy bit.
- It's because
I didn't warm up.
Actually,
I can do it perfectly.
Look, angelina.
I have a new magic trick.
Can you please be my helper?
- I'm not sure.
I think I'm busy.
- And now may I present
A special trick?
Voila!
Abracadabra.
Alakazara.
Give angelina
A sparkly tiara.
[Audience gasping]
Oops.
Oh, no.
Angelina?
Angelina?
Angelina?
Angelina?
Angelina?
- Hmm?
- Angelina?
Both: angelina?
- Thank goodness I'm no longer
A piece of cheese.
- Please, I need your help.
- Thanks, gracie,
But I'm going to wait
Till you've had
A bit more practice.
My ear still hurts
From the last trick.
- Okay.
I'll do the trick myself.
Alice?
Please hand me
Your lunch bag.
I will be very careful
With it.
Abracadabra.
Alacabunch.
Bird fly out
Of alice's lunch.
Voila!
Birdie?
Oh, birdie.
Ugh.
[Giggles nervously]
I must have forgotten
To wind up the pretend bird
So it would fly.
Ohhh.
- [Gasps]
- Sorry, alice.
My trick was ruined
By your peanut butter.
This is what
I've been waiting for,
To dance a real tap dance.
- Ms. Mimi didn't think
We'd be ready yet.
- It's because we worked so hard
At our beginning steps.
- Aren't you so happy
To be done
With those silly
Beginning steps?
- Not me.
I kind of liked
Learning them.
- Me too.
I don't have to be doing
Hard dances to have fun.
- [Laughs]
I forget that not everyone
Is like me.
I do the easy stuff fast,
Then skip ahead.
- Tapping on the floor
Is like b*ating on a drum.
Shuffle...ball change.
Shuffle...
Ball change.
Bravo!
Pick up the tempo
As the music gets faster.
- Ooh.
[Grunting]
- I'm sorry, gracie.
But I'm not sure you're ready
For this dance.
- Oh, please, ms. Mimi.
Give me a minute.
[Tapping out of rhythm]
- Remember,
There are no shortcuts
With dance.
- But I thought
I was really good at tap.
Why does it feel
So hard today?
- You haven't done
Much tap lately.
Even famous dancers always
Go over the basic steps.
- Maybe I am
A little out of practice.
Oh.
[Wooden shuffling]
I guess I should have listened
To ms. Mimi.
Now I am behind.
- Your tap will come back,
Gracie.
We can practice with you
And help you catch up.
- Really?
- Really, truly.
What are friends for?
[Jazzy music]
♪
♪ You got to float
Before you swim ♪
- ♪ You got to stand
Before you walk ♪
- ♪ You got to learn to count
To play hide-and-go-seek ♪
- ♪ You got to cry
Before you talk ♪
- ♪ A step at a time,
A step at a time ♪
♪ And when that hill
Seems hard to climb ♪
♪ You can get to the top
If you sing my rhyme ♪
♪ Take it a step at a time
♪ You got to sleep
Before you wake ♪
♪ You got to mix
Before you bake ♪
♪ And if you like
This rhythm ♪
♪ Rattle and roll
Before you shake ♪
- ♪ A step at a time,
A step at a time ♪
- ♪ I know that hill
Seems hard to climb ♪
♪ But you can get to the top
If you remember my rhyme ♪
♪ Take it a step at a time
- ♪ Why don't you try it
A step at a time ♪
- ♪ Easy now
♪ A step at a time
[Laughter]
- I'm lucky to have
Such magnifique mouselings
As friends.
[Soft shuffling]
- Remember,
Shuffle, hop, step.
- Ooh.
I used to be able
To do this perfectly.
- Ms. Mimi says to pretend
You're playing music
With your feet.
- I don't remember
Her saying that.
Why didn't I listen?
Sometimes I forget
That I don't know everything.
I thought it would be so boring
To go back to the easy steps.
But it's really not so bad.
- It feels super-duper good
To get it right,
Doesn't it?
- It does.
All I need
Is more practice.
- You're halfway there
Already.
[Applause]
Stupendous!
- I was so busy
With my magic
That I forgot to start
From the beginning.
It had been a while
Since I did some tap.
And I went to the beginning
Of my magic book too,
To the easy tricks.
I wasn't ready
For the harder ones.
- Thank goodness.
Who knows what you would have
Pulled out of my ear?
- So pick a card
And look at it.
But don't show me.
Now put the cards
Back in the deck.
Abracadabra.
Abracazek.
Now I will pull your cards
Out of the deck.
- That's my card.
- Mine too.
How did you do that?
- Hmm, simple.
Le magique.
- Your shuffle looks lovely,
Gracie.
- Your shuffle ball change too.
Ms. Mimi will be proud.
- I hope I can dance
With you now.
- I bet you can.
You're going to be the best
Tap-dancing mouseling
In all of mouseland.
- Shuffle...ball change.
Shuffle...
Ball change.
Excellent work, gracie.
Your feet look first-rate.
- Does this mean
I can put on my tap shoes?
- That's right.
Start tap, tap, tapping
With the others.
[Alice squeals]
One, two, three, and change.
One, two, three,
And change.
Let's speed it up now.
Listen closely to the music.
[Bright music]
♪
- How about if I add
A great big bouncy hop?
- We do one thing at a time
And build on it.
Remember?
- Oops.
Sorry.
There I go again.
- The little steps always come
Before the big steps.
Dancing is like magic.
And getting the steps
Just right
Is the most magical part
Of it all.
Hello, I'm angelina ballerina.
My friends are performing
The chinese lion dance.
Two performers are needed
For each costume:
One for the head
And one for the tail.
I wonder how the dancers know
How to jump and roll
At the same time.
They told me the lions' heads
Are made of papier-mache,
And a boy lion
Wears a red bow,
While a girl lion
Wears a green one.
But I think she should wear
A pink bow like mine.
[Laughs]
- Hola, marco here.
I'm listening to my friend
Yibiao play the flute.
Did you know that flutes
Have been around
Since the time
Of the cavemen?
Flutes are wind instruments,
Just like recorders.
That means air
Makes the sound.
Do you see how yibiao
Puckers his lips
To push air
Through the flute
And his fingers cover the holes
To make the different pitches?
I want to play flute
At the next camembert parade.
It's easier to carry
Than a tuba.
Gracias, yibiao!
04x05 - Angelina and the Tummy Butterflies / Angelina and the Magician
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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.