- ♪ 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,
And today could be
The most creative day ever
At camembert academy.
- And so, students,
We're calling this friday
Our very first ever
"Make it all up day."
- "Make it all up day"?
- You're all going to create
An original project
Of your very own
And present it to the class.
- Can it be a poem?
- Or a musical composition?
- Or a song?
- I could choreograph a dance
No one has ever seen before.
It could start
With a demi plie
Followed by an arabesque.
Then I'll go into a pas de chat,
And I can add a grande jete.
And finally, pirouette.
- Brava, angelina.
A wonderful start
For "make it all up day."
- [Giggles]
- Now, angelina,
Do you think you can do
Exactly what you did before
One more time?
- Um...
I think so.
Let's see.
I started with a, um,
Grande jete.
- No, no, angelina.
I think you started
With an arabesque.
- Wasn't it a pirouette?
- Uh, I think it was
A demi plie.
- It was a rond de jambe.
- I saw an eleve.
- Didn't you do a developpe?
- It was faster.
- You went higher.
- Oh-oh.
Oh-o-o-oh!
Oh-o-o-oh-oh!
Oh!
[Both giggle]
Wow!
That was
The most mixed-up dance ever!
- Class, angelina's dance
Just now was improvised.
- Oh, that means
I made it all up
As I went along, right?
- Right.
And improvising is a fun
And very creative thing to do.
But improvising is just step one
Of your project.
- Just step one?
- I want you all
To improvise something new.
Then memorize it,
And record it in some way.
- You mean write it down?
- Yes, a.z.
That way,
Others can follow and enjoy
Your wonderful dance moves
Or your songs
Or your poems.
[Bell ringing]
- This is fun!
- I can't wait
To make up a song!
- I want to write a poem!
- My project is going to be
A poem about...
Cheese.
Oh, cheese, sweet cheese.
How I love cheese.
[Sniffs]
Yellow cheese, white cheese,
And swiss cheese--
All, please.
But roquefort just gives me
The world's biggest sneeze.
[Sneezes]
[Laughter]
- Bravo, vici.
Tres bon.
- ♪ Getting mousy,
So, so mousy ♪
♪ Na na-na-na na na
- I love your song, a.z.
- Pirouette into a plie.
That's it!
- Hey, everyone,
What do you think
About my improvisation?
♪
- Oh, it's wonderful, marco!
- Thanks, gracie.
What's your project going to be?
- Yes, tell us, gracie.
You always have
The most creative ideas.
- Well, I don't have a poem
Or a song
Or a dance or a coconut.
But I am certain
I will think of something.
[Bell ringing]
- We can't wait to see
What you come up with, gracie.
- [Sighs]
Everyone is coming up
With such wonderful creations,
Yet I cannot seem to think
Of a single thing.
Oh, what shall I do?
- I just love
Practicing my new dance.
- [Laughs]
Not so fast, angelina,
Or I won't be able to write down
All your creative moves.
- Thanks for helping me, gracie.
- [Gasps]
Now, can I see how your
"Make it all up day" project
Is coming?
- Uh...
- Gracie, there's nothing
In your notebook.
- That's because, well...
I am still improvising
Something wonderful...
In my mind, angelina.
- Is it a song or a poem
Or maybe a dance like mine?
- Uh, yes.
- Well, which?
- Angelina.
[Giggles]
- What's so funny, polly?
- [Laughs]
Wait till you see
What daddy's doing.
- Red and green and blue
And green and blue and red
And blue and red...
[Laughter]
And blue and green
And cha-cha-cha.
- Dad, what is all this?
- It's a new product
We're going to sell
At my music store, angelina.
With maestro mouseling's
Dancing paws,
Anyone can learn
To do any dance.
You just follow the pattern
And step on the colors--
And red and blue and green--
And you'll be dancing the tango,
Cha-cha, waltz, or swan lake
In no time flat.
- And if you can't dance,
You can have fun
Collecting all the colored paws.
And red and green and blue.
And red and blue and green.
[Laughter]
- Hmm.
This gives me a brilliant idea.
Mr. Mouseling,
Could I borrow maestro
Mouseling's dancing paws?
- I don't see why not, gracie.
- Uh-huh.
Oh, ha.
Oh!
Voila!
I can do a perfect mambo!
[Bell ringing]
Oh.
But now I'm late
For "make it all up day."
Oh, and I haven't created
A dance of my own...
Unless...
No one will know
I didn't make up the mambo
All by myself.
[Rhythmic wooden spoon music]
♪
- Way to go, marco!
- That sounds great!
- Excellent!
- Here are the instructions
For my coco-nutty drum solo.
- Excellent job, marco.
Let's see.
Gracie, you're up next.
- My "make it all up day"
Project
Will include musical paws.
- What are those?
- Look at all the cool colors!
- [Gasps]
Uh-oh.
The instructions are missing.
- Is everything all right,
Gracie?
- Uh, I don't have
The correct order for my dance.
Together: huh?
- Gracie, what's the matter?
- I couldn't think of a project,
So I decided
To do maestro mouseling's
Magical mambo.
- But, gracie, that's cheating.
You didn't make up that dance
Yourself.
- I know.
It was wrong.
And I'm really sorry.
Oh, but now I have no idea
What the right steps are,
So I have nothing
For "make it all up day."
- Gracie, you've got everything
You need right here.
- You're right.
I do.
I can use these paw prints
To make up my own moves.
[Laughs]
Uh, red could be a leap.
Blue could be a spin.
- Those moves will make
A stupendous dance!
- And I think I know
Exactly what to do
For recording my project.
Come, angelina.
Help me put out the paw prints,
Angelina.
Um, ms. Mimi,
I am about to make up
The most fun dance
Ever danced
At camembert academy.
[Giggles]
- It looks like a rainbow
Of cardboard mouse paw prints.
- The red paw prints
Are for leaps.
The blue ones are for spins.
And the green ones--
Well, wait and see.
Please mark my dance moves
In my notebook, angelina.
Merci.
And red.
And green.
And blue!
And blue.
And red and blue.
- [Gasps]
- And red...
And blue!
And green!
- Yay!
- Whoa-ho!
- Great job!
- Yes!
- Bravo, gracie.
What an amazing improvisation.
- And look.
Here is every step of gracie's
Brand-new color dance.
- Now, any one of you
Can try the dance
By following the color pattern
And dancing
From paw print to paw print.
- Can I try?
- Me first.
- I want to do
Gracie's color dance.
- For helping out a friend,
I think angelina should get
The honor.
[Laughter]
- Hmm.
And I accept
With every color of the rainbow.
Now it's time to meet
Camembert's shining stars.
- My name is kevin.
- My name is wil b.
- My name is dj tk.
And the name of the group
Is black violin.
♪
- I play the acoustic viola,
And kevin plays
The electric violin.
♪
- Well, we met in middle school.
Then 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]
- We incorporate
Hip-hop and classical,
And we kind of mix it together.
- 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 it down!
[Violin music and hip-hop beats]
- So basically,
On the record,
I turn the record
Back and fourth
On certain parts of the song
To get different rhythms
Of the different instruments
Played on the song.
- Break it down!
[Violin music and hip-hop beats]
Break--break it--
Break it down.
♪
Break-break!
Break it down!
♪
Break-break!
Break-break!
Break!
Break, break, break!
Break it 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 we can make
Beautiful music that way.
♪
- I'm angelina ballerina.
I can't wait to get home,
Because I have really, truly
Exciting news.
Mum, polly,
I'm going to be
The prima ballerina
In the school ballet!
- Angelina, that's wonderful!
- What's a peema ballerima?
- Prima ballerina.
It's the principal dancer,
The one who gets to dance
The most.
I'll probably have
A very big solo, maybe two.
And at the end,
When I take my bow,
I'll get the loudest applause.
[Chimes ringing]
[Applause]
- Angelina!
Angelina!
- Angelina!
Angelina!
Are you going to be a princess?
- A fairy princess.
- [Gasps]
- Actually, a fairy
Who becomes a princess,
Because I'm the best dancer
In the magic forest.
- Magic forest?
Fairy princess?
Can I be a peema ballerima too?
- Sorry, polly.
Only one dancer gets to be
The prima ballerina.
But maybe when you're big
Like me,
You can be
In the corps de ballet.
- Corps de...huh?
- [Laughs]
Corps de ballet.
That's what we call the dancers
Who dance together in a group.
- [Sighs]
So many new words.
- That's because
There are so many
Different kinds of dancers.
- ♪ Here we are
♪ Ready for the show
♪ Ballerinas running
To and fro ♪
♪ Before the big ballet
♪ Things to do and say
♪ Everyone counts down to go
♪ In ballet,
We love to work together ♪
♪ Friends will help
To make the show much better ♪
♪ We're feeling fabulous
♪ All the family's
There for us ♪
♪ So much fun to share
♪ It takes a lot of dancers
♪ To dance in a ballet
♪ And everybody
♪ Has a part to play
♪ It takes a lot of dancers
♪ To dance in a ballet
♪ Let's watch them dance
♪ And shout, "hooray!"
♪ To each and every dancer
♪ On the stage
- Wow!
Are your friends
Peema ballerimas too?
- I'm the only prima ballerina,
But gracie has a solo,
And alice dances with a partner.
- How about vici?
- Vici's not going to dance
Because she wants
To paint the scenery.
- Like painting pictures?
- Mm-hmm.
Really big pictures.
- Oh, that's what I want to do.
- All right, class,
How about I tell you a story?
It's called once upon a pillow.
All: oh, wonderful,
Ms. Mimi!
Yay!
- The ballet we're going
To put on
Is the story
Of a fairy named fern,
Who is the best dancer
In the entire magic forest.
- [Giggles]
- Fern's dancing captures
The attention of the elf prince.
And he brings her many gifts.
- [Gasps]
[Laughter]
- Unfortunately,
Another fairy becomes jealous.
- Moi?
Jealous?
- She's mad
Because she wants attention too,
So she gives fern her own gift,
An enchanted pillow.
And as soon as fern
Rests her head on it,
She falls
Into a deep, endless sleep,
Never to dance again.
- [Gasps]
Did you say,
"Never dance again"?
Oh, no!
This is not good.
- Let's go to mrs. Thimble's
For smoothies.
- Wow!
You'll have to tell me
Everything about it.
- [Gasps]
Ms. Mimi.
- What is it, angelina?
- I was thinking,
Maybe someone else
Should be the fairy princess.
- But you're perfect
For the role.
Fern is the best dancer
In the forest,
And you're one
Of the best dancers in my class.
- I know, but--
- Fern is lively and quick.
- Uh, I know, but--
- Fern is fearless and brave,
And you're not afraid
Of anything.
- That's not exactly true.
I'm afraid that
If I'm the fairy princess,
I won't get to dance very much.
- You're the principal dancer.
- Who falls asleep,
Never to dance again.
I'd rather be a sprite
Like alice
Or a magic tree and dance
In the corps de ballet.
Or how about a firefly?
- Firefly?
There aren't any fireflies
In this ballet.
- I know!
That's why I can't be
The fairy princess.
We need a firefly.
- Okay, angelina,
I'll make you a promise.
If you still don't want to be
The fairy princess
After this afternoon's
Rehearsal,
You can be a firefly.
- Yay!
- But you have to promise
To stay
Till the very end
Of the rehearsal.
- I promise.
- I think you'll see
How important your part is
And how fun it is
To put all the parts together
To tell a wonderful story.
Okay, let's begin rehearsal.
First, we listen to the music.
Hear those violins?
- Oh, they sound
Like sparkly fairy dust.
- That's right!
The violins
Are setting the scene.
Once upon a time,
There was a magic forest.
And in that forest lived...
- A fairy named fern?
- A magic tree.
We begin
With two echappe sautes.
Then stop in fifth position.
Also in that forest lived...
- A fairy named fern?
- A forest sprite.
Alice,
Chasse around the magic tree
And finish in fourth position.
Then all the other magical
Creatures of the forest enter.
[All gasp]
Not you, angelina.
- [Gasps]
Oh.
- And dance happily about.
- What's everyone
So happy about?
- They're happy
Because fern the fairy is here.
- Hey, that's me!
What happened to the music?
I didn't get to dance yet.
- That was just
The introduction, angelina.
And now it's over.
- Oh.
- But don't go away,
Fairy fern.
Your friends
Want to give you gifts.
- [Gasps]
- Come along, flowers.
You too, magic tree and sprite.
Bourree in a circle
Around fern.
- Um, did someone say something
About gifts?
- Elf prince, that's your cue.
- For me?
Oh, thank you!
Uh-oh,
Why is the music doing that?
- The bad fairy is coming.
- Is that what I think it is?
- The enchanted pillow.
As soon as you touch it,
You'll fall asleep.
No, angelina, don't--
Don't run away.
Take the pillow.
- Do I have to?
- Now lay down your head
And fall fast asleep.
- But I'm not
In the least bit tired.
- Angelina...
- [Sighs]
- Angelina, what are you doing?
You're supposed to be asleep.
- I'm sleepwalking.
- Fairies do not sleepwalk.
You're under a sleeping spell.
- I know,
Never to dance again.
Maybe I can help vici
Backstage.
It's not fair, vici.
Everybody gets to dance a lot
But me.
Alice gets to be a sprite.
All I get to do is sleep.
- Look on the bright side,
Angelina.
When you sleep,
You get to dream.
- But I don't want to dream.
I want to dance,
Just like you wanted to paint.
- I know.
It's so much fun!
[Gasps]
Oops.
- Well, being fern the fairy
Isn't fun.
It's the worst role
In the whole ballet.
- Maybe you could switch
With someone?
- I tried, but ms. Mimi
Made me promise to wait
Until rehearsal was over.
Oh, I wish everyone
Would just hurry up.
Yay!
It's over!
- Angelina.
Angelina?
Can you come back out here,
Please?
Your forest friends have been
Looking everywhere for you.
They want to break your spell.
- Break my spell?
You mean
Fern is going to wake up?
- Yes, indeed.
But she has to fall asleep
First.
- No problem.
Watch this.
- Nice job, fern.
Very convincing.
Okay, magical friends,
Do your thing.
♪
[Chimes ringing]
- Now what?
- Now you leap to your feet
And dance.
- I dance?
- That's right!
You dance and dance and dance!
♪
Excellent, fern.
Okay, sprites and magic trees,
Take fern's hands and join in.
Hear the music?
It's getting louder.
That means the prince is coming.
♪
- I slept and slept and slept.
But now I get
To dance and dance and dance!
Ms. Mimi was right.
My part was important,
And so was everyone else's.
All our parts came together
To tell a stupendous story.
And that's the best part.
- Hola, marco here.
Whoa, is that violin
Missing a middle?
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, folk, you name it.
Man, those guys really make
The strings sing!
- Hello, I'm angelina ballerina.
My friends are performing
The chinese lion dance.
Two performers are needed
For each costume,
One for the head
And one for the tail.
I wonder how the dancers know
How to jump and roll
At the same time.
They told me the lion's heads
Are made of papier-mache,
And a boy lion
Wears a red bow
While a girl lion
Wears a green one.
But I think she should wear
A pink bow like mine.
[Giggles]
04x04 - Angelina and Gracie's Creative Day / Angelina's Big Part
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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.