01x07 - Angelina and the Irish Jig/Angelina En Pointe

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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

[School bell rings]

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And I can't wait to see my friend vici again.

She's been to tippermousy in ireland,

And she's brought back something really special:

Some irish music.

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

♪

- [Gasps]

[Both giggling]

- Ooh.

♪

How come she's not moving her arms?

Are they stuck?

- They're fine.

You just don't use your arms when you do irish dancing.

♪

- Why not?

- That's just how they do it in tippermousy.

[Giggles]

Ballet would look pretty funny if you didn't use your arms.

[Mystical harp and chimes flourish]

[Light orchestral music]

♪

[Audience mumbling]

- I've never seen anything like that one.

- Look at her.

She's gonna fall over.

- Whoa.

- What's up with her?

[Audience mumbling]

- Whoa-oh...ooh.

Oooh, ooh...oof!

[Audience gasps]

- That's an odd dance.

- Angelina.

Angelina.

Angelina, want to give it a try?

- Ahh.

- Okay.

- Maybe we could start an irish dance group.

- Let me try, but no arms, right?

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

♪

- [Giggles]

- Whoops.

- [Gasps]

- I...whoaa....

- Look out. - Angelina.

Angelina.

- Ooh!

- Angelina, are you okay?

- I'm fine.

I must have looked really silly.

- You were doing just fine until then.

- Come on, angelina.

You were getting the hang of it.

Anyone else want to join in?

- I'll give it a try.

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

♪

[Music becomes garbled]

- Oh, no.

- Vici, I haven't...

- It wasn't your fault, angelina.

- I broke it.

- Oh, no.

- Oh, vici, I'm so sorry.

[Panting]

[Bell rings]

[Panting]

- I'm sorry, angelina.

I haven't got any irish music at all.

- Oh, no.

Vici brought that music all the way from ireland,

And I can't go to tippermousy to get more.

- How about some nice french music?

♪ Frere jacques, frere jacques ♪

♪ Dormouse vous, dormouse... ♪

- Uh, no.

No, thank you, mrs. Thimble.

It has to be irish.

- Then I'm afraid I can't help, angelina.

So sorry.

[Sighs]

- Any luck?

- No, none at all.

Help.

What am I going to do?

- [Scatting upbeat irish-tinged music]

- Hold on, that's it.

- That's what?

- Marco, do you know that tune all the way through?

- Yes, I can't stop singing it.

These irish jigs are so catchy.

- Do you think you know it well enough

To play it on your fiddle?

- [Laughs] do mice like cheese?

- Well, most mice do,

But polly's not keen on gorgonzola, and...

- I mean, yes.

Yes, I can.

I can play that tune with my eyes closed.

- Good, then in that case,

I think I know how to make things up to vici.

We're going to have an irish party.

Vici, I'm really sorry.

Mrs. Thimble didn't have any irish music.

- Oh, I was really looking forward

To having our irish dance group.

Still...

It...it wasn't your fault, angelina.

Well, it was, but, I mean,

You didn't mean to, and...

[Sighs]

- Gracie, I have an idea.

We're going to have a surprise irish party.

- Fantastique,i--

- Shh, like I said, it's a surprise.

Pretty please, can you play with vici for a while?

- What do you mean?

- Just keep her busy till I've got everything figured out.

- What are you two whispering about, hmm?

- Oh, nothing.

[Giggles] just, you know, nothing.

- Are you talking about me?

- No, i--i was just thinking,

Let's go and play on the swings.

Just you and me.

- Well, all right.

- Whew.

Okay, it's time for us to learn a few more irish dancing steps.

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

♪

- Angelina, I thought class was finished for today.

- Well, if you've got time, we'd like

An irish dancing lesson, ms. Mimi.

- An irish dancing lesson?

- You don't know anything about irish dancing, do you?

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

[Both gasp]

- [Laughs]

In fact, I do, but why irish dancing?

- Well, vici brought back some irish music

From her vacation in tippermousy.

- And angelina fell on it.

- It was an accident.

So we're trying to organize an irish dance party

To try to make it up to her.

- Sounds like an excellent idea.

So we start like this.

[Light, upbeat piano music]

♪

- So what was angelina whispering about?

- Oh, you know, you know, nothing much.

- Well, if you're not gonna tell me,

I'll just have to ask angelina.

- Oh, no.

Vici, wait.

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

[Sighs]

Angelina, i--

[Both gasp]

- What's going on?

- Uh, ms. Mimi is giving us some extra lessons.

- So why weren't gracie and I included?

- Oh, she's just doing it in small groups.

I expect she'll ask you tomorrow.

Isn't that right, ms. Mimi?

- Uh...yes?

- Whew, thanks, ms. Mimi.

- Hmm.

[Upbeat irish-tinged violin music]

- Hey, that sounds pretty good.

Marco must be here already.

- Is that a drum I hear?

- I think it's called a bodhran.

Marco must have brought it from school.

♪

- I know angelina wasn't being mean about me.

She's not like that.

- No, she's a really good friend.

- Oh, I've been so silly.

I'm gonna go to her house right now and say sorry.

- No...i mean, she might not be home.

I mean, uh... Oh, help.

- [Giggling]

[Doorbell rings]

- I'll get it.

Vici, i-- I wasn't expecting you.

I mean, i...

- Oh, no, vici.

I mean, it's you.

- Oh, I'm sorry, angelina.

I did my best to stop her.

- Stop me?

- No, vici, i...

- I was right all along.

There is something going on,

And I was coming here to say sorry to you.

[Sobbing]

- Vici, stop.

Wait.

- Why?

You don't seem to want me around.

- Wait, vici, please.

- No, leave me alone.

- Vici, I'm really sorry for what I did to your music.

- Then why are you always whispering about me

And making silly secret plans?

- Because I wanted to make a surprise irish party for you

To say a really big sorry.

- So that's what all the whispering

And planning was about?

- Uh-huh.

- Well, I'm sorry now.

[Laughs]

Did you say something about a party?

- Mm-hmm.

- Then what are we waiting for?

- They're coming.

- Here they come.

- Ready, vici?

- You bet.

[Upbeat irish-tinged music]

♪

- [Giggles]

- Thanks, angelina.

This is the best irish dance party ever.

[All giggling]

- 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.

♪

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 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.

[Bell rings]

- I'm angelina ballerina,

And today I wish I could dance on air

Like the older girls.

Oh, they look like they're floating

On their toes.

Alice, where are your ballet slippers?

- I left my ballet slippers in class yesterday, angelina.

Ah, here they are, in the lost and found.

- Alice, remember when we saw

The older girls doing chaines like this?

[Gentle upbeat piano music]

♪

- They did eight chaines in a row

On the tip of their toes.

- I can do eight in a row too.

[Upbeat piano music]

- Oh!

- Whoooa.

- Watch out.

- Ooh! - Oooooh.

- Oops, sorry.

- Are you both okay?

- Uh, yeah, thanks.

- Fine, thanks.

- I came by to tell you

That I've picked out a new instrument to play.

It just got here.

- Wow.

- It's got strings like a violin,

But it's a lot bigger.

Want to go see it?

- Sure.

- Eight in a row.

Wow.

[Sweeping orchestral music]

♪

Oops, sorry.

- Gotcha.

- [Laughs]

Nice save, marco and alice.

[Laughs]

- Sorry, ms. Mimi.

I was practicing my chaines, and I didn't see you.

- I was just posting a notice.

The mouskinov ballet is coming to hold auditions

Where some of our older girls can try out.

- Auditions for the famous mouskinov ballet?

Can I try out too?

- [Laughs]

I don't think you're quite ready.

Their dancers dance en pointe.

- You mean on the very high tippy-top of their toes?

- In very special shoes.

- Toe shoes?

- Well, we call them pointe shoes.

- Wow, they're just like miss lilly's shoes

That she wore in the ballet giselle.

- This is weird.

What's with the toe?

- This long part of the toe is called the box.

- A box...in a shoe?

You can't even squish it.

- And it's flat on the top.

- That's the platform, so the dancer can balance.

- And look like she's floating.

- Oh, I'd love to dance in pretty pink pointe shoes,

And then I could audition for the mouskinov ballet.

- [Laughs]

Angelina, you just have a few more years

Until you're bigger.

Be patient.

- But...

[Bell rings]

- We have to hurry.

Marco's going to show us his new instrument.

- Have fun.

- [Sighs]

Patient, hmm.

I want to audition for the ballet now.

- Come on, angelina.

- Wow, it's a lot bigger than a violin.

[Low-pitched string bass tones]

- And it sounds very different.

- It's a string bass, and here's the bow.

Wow, it's big.

Hmm, well, you're supposed to stand behind it to play it.

- [Laughs]

I can't see you.

- Hey, where are you two?

- I'm here.

Where are you?

[Laughter]

- Where is he?

- [Laughs]

This is fun.

- Oooh-ooh. - Ah!

[Laughter]

- How am I going to play the notes?

It's kind of hard to reach all the strings.

- How about...a chair?

- Here I go.

I guess it will just take practice.

[Low-pitched tones]

- ♪ Ahhh

[Gasps]

That's it.

- What, angelina?

- Practice.

That's what I'm going to do.

See you later.

- Huh?

- Huh?

- Oh, uh, yeah, maybe, no.

Wow, perfect.

These look new.

- Hello, girls.

Polly and I made cheese pies for our picnic at the lake.

- [Sniffs]

- Yum.

- Double yum.

Please call when it's time to go, mum.

Come on, alice.

I have something to show you.

I saw the older girls stuff their shoes

With something fluffy, so...

- Wow, angelina, those are extra-long shoes.

- Remember, this is a surprise.

Don't tell ms. Mimi or anyone.

Oh, they're beautiful, aren't they?

- They sure are.

Introducing angelina ballerina of the mouskinov ballet.

- Oooh-oh-oh... Oof!

- [Gasps]

- Not as easy as it looks.

Okay, got it.

You can let go now.

Ooooh!

[Gentle, upbeat piano music]

♪

Uh-oh, ooooh...oof!

Ouch.

Oooooh.

- Time to walk to the lake.

- Ooh, walk?

But my feet hurt.

- Oh, dear.

Well, maybe your feet are growing.

Why don't you stay at home with your dad and rest?

- You're not coming?

- No.

- Feel better, angelina.

- I love picnics,

But my dream is to be in the mouskinov ballet.

[Upbeat music]

♪

♪ I can see what my future's going to be ♪

♪ If I practice at the barre

♪ No time for rest if I'm to be the best ♪

♪ Only then I'll be a star

♪ Imagine how they'll cheer

♪ When I finally appear

♪ I will be a star leaping in the air ♪

♪ I will be a star en pointewithout a care ♪

♪ I will be a star

♪ They'll throw flowers everywhere ♪

♪ Yes, I will be a star

♪ I know I will be a star

[Applause]

- [Gasps]

- Angelina,

You just floated across the stage.

Excellent audition.

You've been chosen to be the star

Of the mouskinov ballet.

- Yippee!

[Giggles]

Sorry, dad.

I was just doing a leap in the sky...

Um...chewing a piece of pie.

[Low-pitched string bass music]

♪

- Hi, marco. - Huh?

- How come you're not having lunch with everyone?

- Oh, I've got to keep practicing.

- Me too.

Good luck.

- Yeah.

[Light flute music]

- Here I go.

I'm doing it.

I'm dancing en pointe.

Ooooh, oof!

[Sighs]

- Thank you, dr. Tuttle, for coming by.

Oh, dear.

Dr. Tuttle says young muscles can get very tired.

You'll need to rest now and maybe stay home tomorrow.

[Gasps] tomorrow?

Oh, no.

Look, mum, I feel better already.

- We'll see, but I don't think so.

- I'll rest so much

That tomorrow I'll be absolutely fine.

I don't want to miss the mouskinov auditions.

Oh, alice, I'm so nervous.

- You'll be the best, angelina.

Marco, what's wrong?

- Aww, I just can't play this bass.

It's so humongous.

Did you know it's the largest of all string instruments?

- Oh, my.

Marco, where did you get that?

- Uh, um, right here in the music room,

Where you told me to.

- There must be a mistake.

- Where is she going?

- I don't know, but she's back.

- I ordered this quarter-sized bass for you,

But it was put in the storage room.

- Oh, it's the same kind of instrument

But a lot smaller.

- You don't have to stand on a chair anymore.

[Low-pitched bass string tones]

- He-hey, I'm rockin' now.

- [Laughs]

You sure are.

I think you'll like this bass better, marco.

Now it's time for the mouskinov ballet auditions.

- Okay, here goes.

[Low pitched bass string tones]

Ooooh.

- Good luck, angelina.

[Gentle piano music]

♪

- Whoooa-oh-oh, ooh...

Oof!

- Uh-oh.

- Oooh.

- Angelina?

- Oh, I just want to be a prima ballerina,

But I know I didn't look like one today.

I borrowed these from the lost and found.

I guess I don't need them anymore.

- Don't worry.

You're much too young.

- But...

- [Laughs]

Oh, angelina, every young ballerina

Has to wait until her body is strong enough.

- Really?

- Ankles, calves, knees...

Your whole body has to get strong.

You need just a few more years.

- And then I'll be en pointe.

Both: mmm.

[Low-pitched string bass music]

♪

- Stupendous, marco.

- It's cool,

Because this string bass is right for my size.

- Yes, and that's cool... Just to be your own size.

Let's hear another song, marco.

[Low-pitched string bass music]

♪

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.

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.