- ♪ 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 with ballet.
- 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.
03x04 - Angelina and the Hip Hop Kid / Angelina and the Broken Fiddle
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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.