03x07 - Angelina and the Irish Jig / Angelina En Pointe
Posted: 08/22/23 11:16
- ♪ 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 pointe without 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.
♪ 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 pointe without 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.