02x06 - Angelina Cheerleader/Angelina's Ballet School

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- ♪ 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.

I love to dance for an audience,

Especially when everyone claps and cheers

And makes a fuss over me.

And I always like to make a fuss over my friends

When they do something special too.

- Don't forget.

This saturday, the chipping cheddar mouse marathon

Comes to town.

- Wow. Will we be able to watch it, ms. Mimi?

- Of course we will, vici.

The race starts outside the fire station,

Goes all around the streets and country roads,

And finishes at mrs. Thimble's store.

But I have some even more wonderful news to tell you all.

I'm very proud to announce

That one of the students in my class

Has decided to run in this year's marathon.

- Who is it, ms. Mimi?

Please tell us.

- Well, it's marco.

- What?

- Marco?

- We didn't know you were a champion runner.

- Uh, uh, I'm not.

I've just been jogging a bit to keep fit.

- Well, you must be super fit to run in a marathon.

- Not really.

I train every evening, running around the school yard.

It's no big deal.

- No big deal?

Marco, that's stupendous!

[Bell rings]

Stop.

Wait. Make way for the magnificent marco.

Famous marathon mouseling coming through.

Stand back. Stand back.

And five, six, seven, eight.

- What about me?

When can I join in?

- Not yet, marco.

[Lilting piano music]

♪

- How about this?

Wha-hey!

- Marco, what do you think you're doing?

- I think I'm doing a pirouette.

- Well, you can stop that immediately.

- What? Why?

- A champion runner needs to save his energy

For the big race on saturday.

- Yes, but it's only tuesday.

- Well, you could twist your ankle doing a move like that.

Then how would you be able to run?

- [Sighing] oh.

I just wanted to dance.

- Sorry, marco.

I'm going to have to keep my eye on you

If you're going to stand a chance

Of winning that marathon.

- Ha-ha. Got you this time, a.z.

- Oh.

- Marco, what are you playing now?

- I'm playing checkers.

- No time for all that.

You should be busy training.

You can play checkers after you cross that finish line.

- Ohh.

No dancing, no games, no fun.

Oh.

[Crickets chirping]

- Uh, dad, are you using your camera on saturday?

- No, I don't think so.

- Great.

So could you be there at the marathon

To take a photo of marco when he comes in first?

- Ah. - Oh, come on, please?

You are the best photographer in all of chipping cheddar.

- Oh. Um, okay. - [Giggles]

- I guess I could do that.

- Stupendous!

- Look, everyone.

I can run like marco.

- Could you make some flags

For everyone to wave along the route?

Please?

Thanks, mum.

Excuse me, everyone.

I need to go upstairs and work on my cheerleader routine.

- What's a cheerleader routine?

- [Chanting] running hard, he'll go far.

Marco, marco, rah, rah, rah!

- What you doing, angelina?

- I'm a cheerleader.

I'm making up some cheerleader chants

For my cheerleader team.

- Can I be a cheerleader, angelina?

- It's not easy, polly.

We have to put on a really good show

To support marco when he runs in the marathon.

- I can do it. I can do it.

- All right, polly.

Just copy what I do.

- Okeydokey.

- [Chanting] m-a-r, "c" and "o."

Marco, marco, watch him go.

Yay!

- [Grunts]

That's hard.

- Being a cheerleader is hard, polly.

There's dancing and gymnastics,

Not to mention the chanting.

- What is chanting?

- Well, a chant is kind of like a poem

And kind of like a song.

It rhymes.

But instead of singing the words like this...

♪ He's amazing, he's a star ♪

You say them to a rhythm like this:

[Chanting] he's amazing. He's a star.

He's our hero. Rah, rah, rah.

Put the chanting with the dancing,

And you've got yourself a cheer.

[Chanting] north and south, east and west,

We love marco.

He's the best.

- [Chanting] backwards, forwards,

Up and down,

Marco mouse, the best in town.

- [Clapping]

That's great, polly.

Welcome to the team.

- [Giggles]

- Saturday soon came along, the day of the big race.

And I'd done everything I could

To make it a special day for marco.

[Cheering]

- What?

[Drum and kazoo music]

♪

All: [chanting] running hard, he'll go far.

Marco, marco, rah, rah, rah!

- Angelina.

What's happening?

- I organized everything,

The balloons, the banners.

Everyone's come to cheer you on.

[Thumping drum and kazoo music]

♪

That's the marco marathon march.

I made it up myself.

- But--but I never wanted all this.

- Everybody's come to see you win the race.

- Winthe race?

I don't think I even want to be inthe race.

- What?

But marco.

- All this fuss, I hate it.

I've changed my mind.

I'm not running in the marathon.

- Oh.

- Okay, where is he?

Where is that champion runner of yours?

- Uh, sorry, dad. Can't stop.

I have to go find marco.

Oh...

- Angelina. - Oh.

- Why so upset?

- It's marco.

He doesn't want to run in the marathon,

After all the trouble I went to organizing the balloons

And the banners and the marching band.

- I see what's troubling you, angelina.

You can't understand why marco doesn't appreciate

All the fuss you've made over him.

- Exactly.

You don't think I made too much fuss,

Do you, ms. Mimi?

- Well, what do you think?

- [Sighs]

I think maybe I shouldn't have stopped him dancing

And playing checkers.

And maybe I did go kind of over the top

With all the cheerleaders and chanting and stuff.

- You did nothing wrong, angelina.

Supporting your friends is a good thing.

But not everyone likes that much fuss.

- The chipping cheddar mouse marathon

Will be commencing in five minutes.

All runners to the starting line, please.

- I have to find marco.

I know deep down, he really wants to run in the race.

But where can he be?

- Is there any special place he likes to go?

- Uh, he said he likes running in the school yard.

- The school yard.

Hmm, maybe it's time for you

To do a little running yourself, angelina.

- Yes. Thank you, ms. Mimi.

[Panting]

Marco, I'm so glad I found you.

The race is about to start.

Please come back.

- I can't.

I don't want to run anymore.

- [Gasps] but why?

- I'm scared I might not do well in front of all my friends.

You told everyone how good I was.

And now they're all expecting me to win.

I wasn't scared before.

But when I saw all the flags and banners and cheerleaders...

- Oh.

I'm sorry.

I guess I did kind of go over the top.

It doesn't matter if you win.

We're just all proud that you're in the race.

- Really?

- Absolutely, positively.

- All runners to the starting line, please.

- Well, what are we waiting for?

Come on. I've got a marathon to run.

- Yes.

- Hooray! - Yay!

[Giggling]

[Crowd cheering]

[Cheering]

- Where's marco?

- There he is.

Spectators: yay!

[Cheering]

- He's coming.

He's coming.

[Cheering]

- [Gasps]

- He's stopping.

- Angelina, I think it's time for you and your cheerleaders

To do your thing.

- Okay, everyone.

[Chanting] running hard, he'll go far.

Marco, marco, rah, rah, rah!

[Cheering]

[Chanting] m-a-r, "c" and "o."

Marco, marco, watch him go.

Yay!

- Great job, marco.

And we're all very proud of you.

- I didn't win, but I finished the race.

I couldn't have done it without angelina's help.

All that cheering kept me going to the end.

- Hmm, you know, next year, I think I'm going to run

In the chipping cheddar mouse marathon.

- Great.

Then I'll get together with a.z.,

And we can be your cheerleading team.

- [Laughs] - yay.

- [Giggles]

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

- My name is lindsay,

And when I was three, I started taking ballet.

- My name is avery, and I study

At the american ballet theatre school.

- When I was little, my grandma gave me

A package of three books and a little angelina ballerina doll.

And I really liked the books.

- My sister's a dancer, so I went on an audition,

And I just really liked it.

- When you tie your pointe shoes,

You have to cross the ribbons

And make sure you tie a tight knot

On the inside of your foot.

Our teacher just choreographed a piece.

We don't really know what the name is.

But--yeah, but it's fun.

[Stately orchestral music]

♪

We have pointe shoes made of plaster and glue.

And at first it hurts a little bit,

But your feet get a lot stronger.

And it's--you have, like, padding,

Like, a toe pad underneath your pointe shoes.

It feels good.

♪

- When I do an entrechat six, it's a challenge.

But I work hard at strengthening my legs,

And it makes it easier.

♪

- This the first time I've danced with a partner,

So it's challenging, but it's a great experience.

♪

- She's a really good partner.

♪

- It's really fun to learn and get to know

The different ways of balancing on your pointe shoe.

And it just feels amazing.

♪

- I really like dancing.

I hope to inspire other people to dance.

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And I'm trying to get ready for school,

But I can't find my ballet bag.

Huh?

Hmm?

Ha.

[Sighing] oh.

- Have you found it, angelina?

- No.

And I've looked everywhere.

[Sighs] huh?

- [Grunting]

- Polly, who said you could take my ballet bag?

- Sorry.

I was pretending I go to ballet school

Just like you.

- Oh, polly, you can study ballet for real

When you're older.

- When? Tomorrow?

- Not for a few more years, sweetheart.

- That's too long.

I want to study ballet now.

- I have a stupendous idea.

I can teach you ballet, polly.

- You can?

- Of course I can.

We can use the attic for your lessons.

- Yippee!

- That is a stupendous idea, angelina.

- And maybe I could wear your tiara.

Pretty please with cheese?

- Maybe sometime. - [Giggles]

- We'll start our ballet classes

As soon as I get home from school.

- Yeah!

- I even have a name for my new school:

The angelina mouseling royal academy of ballet.

- That is a big name for such a small school.

- Someday it could be as big as camembert academy,

Maybe bigger.

Line up, students.

First position.

You all have perfect turnout.

I taught you well.

I'll be a great ballet teacher, like ms. Mimi and miss lilly.

- You think so?

- I know so.

Angelina can do anything.

- Thanks, alice.

I'll prove it.

We'll have a recital at the end of this week.

Then you can see what my star pupil has learned.

- [Giggles] I'll be there.

Au revoir.

- Are you sure polly will be ready

To put on a recital in just a week, angelina?

- With me teaching her, she'll be more than ready.

- You might need some help.

- Okay. You can be my assistant.

- Hmm.

[Gasps]

Yay!

I'm ready, teacher angelina.

- Me too.

And alice is going to be my assistant.

- Ooh, goody, two teachers.

I'm gonna learn really fast.

- That's the plan.

The angelina mouseling royal academy of ballet

Is now officially open.

There are five positions in ballet.

This is first position.

- Your feet look funny,

Like a frog.

- Ribbet.

- [Giggles]

- It's called turnout.

- [Gasps]

Like this?

- Just start like this for now.

- This is second position.

- Wider second, polly.

- Third.

Fourth.

- Turnout, remember?

- [Gasps]

This is too hard.

- But turning out makes you look graceful

To the tips of your toes.

- How about turning in?

Like a pigeon, get it?

- That's not funny, polly.

Get back to the barre and do first position again.

- But I'm tired.

- We just started.

- [Giggling] - polly, where are you going?

- Don't worry, angelina.

We'll try again tomorrow.

- Echappe changement.

Ready?

Second.

Fifth.

Second.

Wider second, gracie.

Pretend your feet are flying away from each other.

Land lightly, a.z.

Imagine the floor is a trampoline.

Better.

Great work, everybody.

- Ah, ca va?

How is the royal academy of angelina?

- Polly's learning really fast,

Thanks to angelina's excellent teaching.

- And alice's.

- I guess I shall see for myself at your recital.

You're still having one, no?

- Of course we are.

Okay, dancers, first position.

- Again?

- That's how we always start.

- [Sighs]

- And if you do a good job,

You're going to star in your very own ballet recital.

- Really, truly?

- Yes, but you have to practice the five positions to get ready.

- Okay.

- First.

Second.

Third.

Fourth.

Fifth.

Hmm.

Now watch us, polly.

- I'm a jumping bean.

Yay, I'm a jumping bean.

- Stop being a silly billy, polly.

- [Gasps]

Mummy, angelina's being mean.

- Polly, come back.

I'm sorry.

[Sighs] this is not good.

What will gracie say when polly can't do ballet?

- Uh, "I told you so"?

- Oh, alice.

What are we going to do?

If polly doesn't do the show,

Gracie will laugh at me.

I must be a horrible ballet teacher.

- Hey, maybe you could talk to ms. Mimi.

She might have some good advice.

- Good spotting, gracie.

Oh, a double pirouette, a.z.

Very impressive.

[Claps]

- [Giggles] a biento, angelina.

See you soon at your recital.

- [Gasps]

Um, ms. Mimi, can I talk to you?

- Of course, angelina.

How's your ballet school coming along?

- You know about that?

- I hear it's going to be as big as camembert academy someday.

- [Sighs] I doubt it.

Polly is-- was my only student.

She just won't pay attention, no matter how much I force her.

- Hmm.

Maybe instead of trying to force her,

You could try to make it fun.

- [Gasps] oh, yes.

That's how you do it, ms. Mimi.

- Land lightly, a.z.

Imagine the floor is a trampoline.

Better.

It also helps to let your students know

When they've done a good job.

- I guess I've been too hard on polly.

Polly, I'm sorry.

I guess I was kind of mean yesterday.

- Yep.

- Definitely.

- So, polly, could you maybe give me another chance?

I promise it will be more fun this time.

- Well, I do still want to be a ballerina.

- ♪ Did you know that counting can be fun? ♪

♪ Let's begin a song with number one ♪

♪ But numbers two and three come next in line ♪

♪ And soon you'll see

♪ That the magic has begun

♪ Number four, to move it right along ♪

♪ The next position in our counting song ♪

♪ And then the number five

♪ Will bring your ballet shoes alive ♪

♪ Places everyone for every ♪

♪ Ballerina

♪ Just before they point a toe ♪

♪ Must know their numbers one to five ♪

♪ And with these five positions ♪

♪ You'll be ready for the show ♪

♪ And your ballet will come to life ♪

♪ Let's count together

♪ One, two, three, four, five ♪

- Hee-hee. Thank you, angelina ballerina.

- [Giggles]

Welcome to the first performance

Of the angelina mouseling royal academy of ballet,

Starring ms. Polly mouseling.

[Quiet applause]

[Bouncy piano music]

♪

- [Gasps] ooh-la-la, angelina.

You did a good job teaching your sister.

- Yippee!

- [Gasps]

- Yeah.

Whoa-ho.

[Laughter]

- Looks like polly's learned a lot,

And she's having fun.

- That's what it's all about.

Hello. I'm angelina ballerina.

Did you know dance is a wonderful way to exercise?

Just as you warm up before exercise,

You should warm up before dance.

You have to warm your muscles so you won't get hurt.

It's best to warm up by stretching.

You can reach for your toes.

You can reach back.

Stretch that arm, now.

You can even bend backward like a noodle.

And once you're all warmed up, ta-da,

You're ready to dance.

- Hola. Marco here.

And this is kenichi ebina from japan.

He's a great hip-hop dancer.

In this dance, kenichi tells a story

About a mannequin that comes to life.

That move is called popping.

[Giggles]

And here's an arm wave,

Like an ocean wave moving through him.

And that's locking.

See how fast his arms move?

You can learn hip-hop by watching other dancers

And even music videos.

And then you can make your very own dance style.