04x09 - Angelina's Trick-or-Treat Feat/Angelina and the Laughing Poet

[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

[Upbeat music]

♪

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And today is one of my favorite holidays of the year,

Halloween.

My friends and I have ordered our halloween costumes

From a catalog,

And they should arrive any minute.

Still no sign of the u-p-mouse delivery truck.

- I'm so frustrated.

- Oh, I hope our costumes come in time.

- Of course they will.

They have to.

- Perhaps the truck is just running late.

- Here's a picture of the costume I ordered.

Isn't it beautiful?

I'm going to be odette,

The enchanted princess turned into a swan,

From the ballet swan lake.

Oh.

I just hope all the feathers don't make me sneeze.

- Hey, I want to see my costume.

- I'm not done looking at mine yet.

- Now, girls, please take turns.

[Rapping sounds]

- That must be the delivery mouse at the door.

[Rapping continues]

Oh.

- Look at my super sally costume.

It has a cape.

[Thumping sound]

- Is that someone coming?

- I'll go look.

- It must be the delivery mouse.

- No.

- Isn't the u-p-mouse truck awfully late, mum?

- I'll call u-p-mouse to see what's going on.

[Phone beeps]

- I can't wait to try on my robe.

I'm going to be carabosse,

The wicked fairy in the sleeping beautyballet.

- Is she really mean?

- Don't worry, polly.

It's just pretend.

- I'm going to be a snowflake...

From the nutcrackerballet--

All glittery and sparkly.

- Oh. - Wow.

- Oh, dear.

That's terrible news.

- Well?

- Are the costumes coming?

- I'm afraid not.

The delivery truck had a flat tire,

And the costumes will not arrive until tomorrow.

All: tomorrow?

- But halloween is tonight.

- And now it's too late to buy or make

Any more costumes.

- Yeah, and it's almost trick-or-treat time.

- What are we going to do?

- I don't think there's anything we can do.

Without costumes, our halloween is ruined.

I was really looking forward to being a swan.

- And I really, really wanted to fly like super sally.

[Musical fanfare]

♪

But I can't fly without my cape.

- I don't think you could fly even with a cape.

- But you could still play the super sally music,

And when people open their doors,

You could run up to them like this.

That would almost seem like flying.

- I know a ballet step that's even more like flying:

The grand jete.

[Soft piano music]

See, polly? It's just like flying.

- Oh, teach me how to do it.

- Absolutely, positively.

You take a few quick running steps.

Then you leap up into the air like this.

- My turn.

♪

Look!

I'm flying like super sally.

- You just gave me an absolutely stupendous idea, polly.

Why don't we all dance our characters for halloween?

- Yeah. Who says we need costumes?

I'll bet we could each come up with a dance step.

- That would be a cool way to trick-or-treat.

Hmm.

I wonder how a snowflake would dance.

- I know.

In the nutcrackerballet, the snowflakes waltz like this.

♪ One, two, three

♪ One, two, three

♪ One, two, three

♪ One, two, three

- Oh, yes.

A waltz has a one-two-three rhythm.

♪ One, two, three

♪ One, two, three

I'm as light as a snowflake.

- And I could dance the part of the wicked fairy

When she gives sleeping beauty the spinning wheel

To prick her finger.

- Oh, the wicked fairy's very bad.

- Don't worry, polly.

Remember, it's make-believe.

- Okay.

I won't be afraid of viki.

- How about you, angelina?

How are you going to be a swan?

- Hmm.

I can do a gliding step, like a glissade.

[Joyful music]

♪

♪

- You would look just like a swan, angelina.

- See?

With the right dance steps,

We can dance our characters when we trick-or-treat.

- But our neighbors will notice we're not wearing costumes.

- Yeah. Will they still give us treats?

- Uh-oh.

- I think our dancing will be just as good

As wearing costumes.

- But just in case, maybe we could find

Some little props and things to go with our characters.

- We could look in mum's arts and crafts box.

- Good idea, polly.

- Wow.

Look at all this neat stuff.

- Look!

I have some masks.

- Do you have a spinning wheel for the wicked fairy?

- No, but I might have some fairy dust.

- This could be a swan feather.

- And these are sparkly like snowflakes.

- Hmm.

Stupendous, mum.

- I hope you're not feeling too badly about the costumes.

- We're okay.

With our dance steps and these props,

Our neighbors should have no trouble

Guessing who we are for halloween.

[Upbeat music]

♪

- I know!

Let's try our trick-or-treat dances on your dad.

- Great idea.

[Knocking at door]

[Together] trick or treat!

- Well, well, well.

Who do we have here?

- Guess who, daddy.

[Musical fanfare]

Whoa!

- Hmm.

I'm not sure.

Wait, I know.

It's super sally herself,

Flying in to save the day.

- Hee-hee, you guessed.

- I knew this would work.

- And who else is with you, super sally?

[Shudders]

Is it just me, or is it getting cold out?

I could swear there's a touch of snow in the air.

- [Giggles]

Maybe the neighbors will give us treats after all.

[Knocking at door]

[Together] trick or treat!

- Oh, goodness me.

A wicked fairy.

If I give you and your friends a cheesy treat,

I hope you won't cast a spell on me.

[Laughs]

- She's not really a wicked fairy, mrs. Thimble.

She's just pretend.

- Oh, thank goodness.

- Looks like we don't need fancy costumes from a catalog.

[Upbeat music]

[Together] ♪ we can express ourselves

♪ With music and dance

♪ And we can tell a story without using words ♪

♪ We can tell a story that nobody's heard ♪

- ♪ Sometimes it's hard to say the things we want to ♪

♪ And here's another way

[Together] ♪ we can express ourselves

♪ With music and dance

♪ And we can tell a story without using words ♪

♪ We can tell a story that nobody's heard ♪

♪

Trick or treat!

- Look at all of you.

I see a wicked fairy, a snowflake,

And who's this?

[Happy music]

♪

[Gasps]

Why, it's odette from swan lake.

Such a graceful swan.

- Achoo!

Thanks, ms. Mimi.

- In fact, you mouselings have given me a wonderful idea.

Did you know that the same composer

Wrote music for all three of the ballets you chose?

- Really? Who?

- His name was tchaikovsky,

And he wrote the music for sleeping beauty,

The nutcracker, and swan lake.

- Tchaikovsky was so amazing.

- So what's your idea, ms. Mimi?

- I'm thinking that for our next recital,

You can do some dances from swan lake,

Sleeping beauty, and the nutcracker.

- Oh, that's a great idea.

- Yippee!

- Did cheesekovky write a ballet about super sally?

- [Giggling]

I'm afraid not.

But with grand jetes like that,

I'll bet you can have a part too, polly.

- I've got five cheesy treats, three brie twirls,

And a whisker bar.

- I'll trade you a cheddar drop for one of your brie twirls.

- Okay.

- Trick-or-treating was so amazing.

Nobody even noticed we didn't have costumes.

- They really thought I was super sally.

- Yes. You were flying high.

- We all were.

Who needs costumes when you know how to dance?

[Laughter]

- I loved that part when you were going down...

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

- My name is leanne.

- I'm kayla.

- I'm hector.

- The name of our group

Is the keltic dreams irish dancers.

We're from the school p.s. In the bronx.

[Jaunty music]

- You don't have to be irish to do irish step dancing.

Our teacher, caroline duggan, is irish, but none of us are.

We're all from different countries,

And we all do it together.

♪

- The part when we do the competition,

It's not really, like, a competition,

But we just make the dance feel fun for us.

♪

[Shoes clacking]

- Making the sound with irish dancing hard shoes

Is one of the most important things.

When we stamp, it's like-- it makes so much noise

That we make the floor shake.

♪

- I always practice at school and at home,

And we lived in a house, so then people downstairs,

They said, "knock it off," because I was, like, too loud,

So I had to practice outside.

♪

- In our school, when we do shows for them

And then when we go back to our classes,

They always ask, "can you teach us that?

Can you teach us this?"

So it's like people want to be like us.

♪

- What I like about irish dancing

Is that we have fun.

We go to new places.

- We've been to city hall, to ireland twice,

And chicago and washington.

And in ireland,

We performed for the president, mary mcaleese.

♪

- I love irish dancing.

It's so fun.

It's like a dream come true to me.

[School bell rings]

- I'm angelina ballerina.

Today ms. Mimi is reading us a poem,

But not in the classroom, in the dance studio.

- Good morning, class.

[Together] good morning, ms. Mimi.

- Where's the music, ms. Mimi?

We can't wait to start dancing.

- [Gasps]

Whoo.

- I'm not playing any music today.

I'm going to read you a poem

By one of chipping cheddar's most famous poets,

T.s. Edam.

- Sounds good enough to eat.

- Whoa.

- Whoops.

- But, ms. Mimi, this is a dance class.

Why are we learning about poetry?

- Good question, gracie.

Poetry and dance aren't as far apart as they seem.

They are both ways of showing our feelings.

- Like feeling happy?

- That's right, angelina.

Now, how would you dance feeling happy?

Both: I know. I know.

[Upbeat ballet music]

♪

- How about you, alice?

- I'm so wobbly.

I feel silly.

- So...

How about dancing feeling silly, then?

- Show us, alice.

- Whoa.

Ooh, ooh, aaah.

Ooh, ooh, whoa.

Whoo.

[Laughing]

Ta-da!

[Laughter]

- Well done, alice.

Very silly, I'd say.

- I love this, ms. Mimi.

- I'm glad,

Because I'll be giving you a poem to dance to

With lots of feelings.

- How do we do that?

- Well, instead of acting out what the words say,

You need to show how the words make you feel.

For example, they might make you feel sad...

Brave...

Or scared.

- Stupendous!

- Make this poem come alive.

Really dance with your heart.

And today you may work anywhere in the school.

- All right. - Yes!

- I've given you all your own lines,

And at the end of the day,

We'll meet up and perform the whole poem together.

- Great!

I got the first lines.

"Birthdays are a special day

When my best friends come to play."

- Oh.

How does that make you feel?

- Um, well,

I know I get really, really excited

When my friends come over.

- So how do you dance that?

- Like I can't sit still.

Here. You read it, and I'll dance.

- "Birthdays are a special day..."

[Dance music]

"When my best friends come to play."

♪

That's great!

Can you read my lines now?

- Yes. Hold on.

Oh.

Here's yours in the middle.

"At night we sleep and begin to dream,

Eyes shut tight and so serene."

- Ooh! Whoops.

- I'll get it.

- [Laughs]

Not very serene, angelina.

[Giggles]

- Okay, giggle goose, it's your turn now.

Let's see what lines ms. Mimi gave you.

"But very soon, the party ends,

"So we say good-bye to all our friends.

"And now it's time to shed a tear.

As we cry, it's over for another year."

- [Giggling]

- Stop giggling, alice.

Oh!

A.z.! - Sorry.

- [Laughs]

That looked funny.

I've really got the giggles now.

- Alice, you need to stop laughing.

- I know, but how?

- We've got to help you look sad when you dance.

We'll do some sad faces, and you copy us.

- Okay.

Here goes.

- Now pull the corners of your mouth down a bit more.

[Laughs]

Now you look silly.

[Laughter]

- Oh, no. Stop making me laugh.

- I know.

Try thinking something sad.

- Like what?

- I don't know.

Something sad that's happened to you.

- Well, the other day, my mom was cooking cheese dumplings,

And they looked all sad and droopy.

- [Laughing]

Alice, that's not sad.

That's really funny.

- [Laughs]

You're right.

They looked like a big splat.

[Laughs]

Now I really can't stop laughing.

[Both laughing]

[School bell rings]

- Saved by the bell.

- Come on, alice.

We'll think of something during lunch.

[Upbeat music]

♪

- Hi, gracie.

How are things coming along with your part of the poem?

- Tres, tres bien.

My lines made me feel hopeful,

And I hope I'm going to be a famous dancer.

- Can you tell what I'm feeling?

[Swinging jazz music]

♪

- Hmm.

You got happy, didn't you?

- I sure did.

Oh, yeah.

[Applause]

- Mine's the sad part,

But every time I try to be sad, I end up laughing.

- How about we do some sad rhymes?

Maybe that will help you.

I want to eat.

I want to chew.

But the pain in my tooth is making me blue.

- [Laughs]

- Oh, yuck.

Moldy cheese.

Keep that away from me, please, please, please.

- [Giggles]

Great rhyming, gracie, but it's still not helping.

- That wasn't supposed to be a rhyme.

I meant it.

Yuck!

- ♪ This bad cheese has brought me to my knees ♪

♪ The smell's so bad, it's making me sad ♪

[Laughter]

- A.z.

- Really funny. - That's so funny.

- Come on. We need to practice.

- Bye, alice. See you later.

It's hard to practice

When we keep laughing all the time.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

Yes, that's fine.

See you later.

- And it was when we had all gone

That alice started to really feel sad.

- I need to think about how the words

In the poem make me feel.

Hmm.

They're about being on your own,

And I'm on my own now.

Well, I miss my friends.

I feel sad without them.

That's what the poem's about,

Feeling sad when your friends have gone.

- And suddenly, alice understood the poem.

- So if I can dance how I feel,

I'll be dancing the feeling of the poem.

But how do I dance to this feeling?

[Sad piano music]

♪

The music sounds sad.

"All too soon, the party ends,

So say good-bye to our friends."

♪

This music is really making me feel sad.

♪

- Ooh, I can't wait to show ms. Mimi how hopeful I am.

- Uh-oh.

Alice isn't here.

- Oh, no.

We should have stayed with her.

What if she's still giggling?

Oh, alice.

I'm so sorry we left you.

Don't worry.

I'll think of something, okay?

- But...

- Welcome back, class.

Did you all manage to find the feelings in the poem?

How about you, alice?

- Uh, ms. Mimi,

I think it would be great if alice swaps with marco

And does the happy part.

Or she could sit down and, uh, rest her feet.

- That's very considerate of you, angelina.

But I think she's okay.

Now let's have everyone come to the front

And all read out the whole poem.

- Oh, no.

- "Birthdays are a special day

When my best friends come to play."

[Upbeat dance music]

♪

[Applause]

"But very soon, the party ends,

So we say good-bye to all our friends."

[Sad piano music]

- I can't look.

- "And now it's time to shed a tear.

As we cry, it's over for another year."

- [Humming sad music]

♪

- Alice, you did it.

You were absolutely, positively--

- "That night we sleep..."

- Whoops. That's my part.

- "And begin to dream,

Eyes shut tight and so serene."

"But soon it is the very next day,

And all the tears have gone away."

[Upbeat music]

♪

"As happy mice, we jump and prance

In the school of music and dance."

[Swinging jazz music]

♪

Great job, class.

I am so proud of you all.

- How did you do it?

- Well, when you and a.z. Left,

I really did start to feel sad,

But I didn't know how to do a sad dance

Until I heard some sad music.

[Sad piano music]

- Dance, poetry, and music are all ways

Of expressing our feelings.

♪

[Applause]

- But, alice, why are you still sad?

You were really truly stupendous.

- Surprise!

This time, I was just acting.

[Laughter]

- Hello, I'm angelina ballerina,

And today I'm watching my friends

Perform an irish step dance.

Do you see how their feet and legs move quickly

But the top part of their bodies hardly move at all?

They're wearing hard shoes that are like tap shoes

Which make a sound every time they hit the floor.

Tap actually began with irish step dance.

It's stupendous to watch and even more fun to try.

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.