04x05 - Angelina and the Tummy Butterflies / Angelina and the Magician

[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

- I'm angelina ballerina.

And today I'm meeting alice

At school early

So we can practice.

But where is she?

- Here I am.

Let's go.

- [Clears throat]

Twirling till the day is done.

Time to say,

"Good night, dear sun."

Tomorrow is a brand-new day,

Another chance to dance.

Hurray!

[Clapping]

- Oh, I love your poem.

- Thanks.

Now it's your turn.

Oh, look.

A purple butterfly.

- Oh, how pretty.

- I wonder if I can hold it.

- Look, its wings

Are fluttering faster.

Oh, angelina, we scared it.

- Bye, beautiful butterfly.

- Bye.

Okay.

Now I'll recite my poem.

[School bell rings]

- We're late for dance class.

- Come on.

You can practice your poem

On the way.

- I love to spring.

I love to hop.

I love to flip.

I cannot stop.

I love to--

Um, uh--

Oh, no.

I practiced all last night.

- You'll remember it, alice.

- [Gasps]

What if I forget the words

To my poem

When I'm in front

Of the whole class?

- Yo, angelina and alice.

Don't be late.

- Let's go.

You can practice

In dance class.

[Jazzy music and snapping]

♪

- Book down, alice.

It's time to catwalk.

- What a cool name

For a dance step.

- It's a jazz dance step.

Now, everyone,

Stand straight as a pencil.

[Laughter]

Let's do a few catwalks and then

Spin around like a pencil.

- [Grunting]

- Whoa!

- [Laughs]

- Yeah!

Jazz dancing is the best.

- Yeah!

- Those are just two jazz steps.

There are a lot more.

- I want to learn

All the steps.

- Today we'll concentrate

On a fun part of jazz:

Improvisation.

- Like in jazz music.

You can take the tune

And play it in your own way.

Right?

- Exactly.

Once you know

Some of the basics,

You can make up

Your own dance.

- Oh, hurray!

- Let me give you the steps.

Catwalk,

Pencil turn,

And a fan kick.

And jump over a log.

[Laughter]

Now you can put the steps

Together in your own way.

- I'll go first.

- Now, everyone,

Improvise.

- Come on, alice.

Let's jump over a log.

- Excellent.

- Yeah!

- We'll do more jazz dancing

Next class.

- Hurray!

- Yeah!

Thanks, ms. Mimi.

- Now it's poem time.

- Oh, no.

- I want to recite

My poem first.

- I'll be second.

- I love to spring.

I love to hop.

I love to flip.

I cannot stop.

I love to--

Oh, no.

I forgot it again.

- Alice?

- Tomorrow is a brand-new day,

Another chance to dance.

Hurray!

[Applause]

- That was great, angelina.

- Good rhyming.

- And now it's alice's turn.

But where is she?

- [Sighs]

Hello, butterfly.

- Oh, what a fabulous butterfly.

- [Sighs]

- Alice, are you all right?

- My tummy

Feels a little funny.

- Oh, dear.

Do you need to see

The school nurse?

- [Sighs]

I don't feel sick,

Just, my tummy feels funny.

- Alice, you weren't in class

To recite your poem.

- I didn't want

To forget the words

In front of everyone.

- Oh, poem day, huh?

- We have to stand in front

Of the whole class...

- And recite our poems

All by ourselves.

- See this butterfly?

It reminds me

Of when I used to get worried

Before my performances.

- It does?

- Yes.

Sometimes I would get

Tummy butterflies.

- What?

Huh?

- Butterflies?

- Tummy?

I do not understand.

- It's when your tummy

Feels funny, not sick,

But like it's got

Fluttering butterflies inside.

- I think I have

Tummy butterflies right now.

- I've had tummy butterflies.

- So have i.

- Me too.

- When I get scared,

It helps me to talk louder.

- When I have to stand up

In front of everyone,

I just pretend that

They're all in their pajamas

And their hair looks funny.

[Laughter]

- I can try those things too.

- Guess what, alice.

Mr. Hopper said that whoever

Didn't recite a poem today

Will get to do theirs

Tomorrow...

- Okay.

I can do it.

- On the lunchtime

Theater stage

For the whole school.

- [Gasps]

Oh, no.

My tummy butterflies

Are back.

- Try it once for us, alice.

- It's always good to practice.

- Okay.

I love to spring.

I love to hop.

I love to flip.

I cannot stop.

I love to--

Oh, no.

- Don't worry, alice.

Let's practice jazz steps now,

And you can try again later.

[Jazzy piano music and snapping]

♪

- Fan kick.

- Come on, alice.

- [Laughs]

[Laughter]

I wish reciting my poem

Was this much fun.

- You'll do great tomorrow,

Alice.

I know you'll remember

Every word.

What if alice doesn't remember

Her poem tomorrow?

[Sighs]

I just wish I could take away

Her tummy butterflies.

[Sweet instrumental music]

♪

Oh, hello.

What did you say?

Are you talking

About my friend alice?

Oh, that's an idea.

An excellent idea.

- I love to spring.

I love to hop.

I love to flip.

I cannot stop.

Girls: alice.

- Over here.

- Regarde, alice.

- Huh?

- Time for the butterfly

Jazz dance.

- Oh, for me?

- Oui,

For you.

[Jazzy piano music]

♪

[Jazzy music and snapping]

- Yeah!

- Hey, alice.

It's your turn

To recite your poem.

- But I'm dancing.

- I bet you can dance and say

Your poem at the same time.

- Huh?

- [Clears throat]

Girls: I love to jump.

I love to hop.

- I love to flip.

I cannot stop.

Another flip,

I'm upside down.

I love

To turn the world around.

[Applause]

I did it.

I remembered all the words.

- Good job.

You forgot to think

About the tummy butterflies,

So they disappeared.

Oh, look.

- Come, butterfly.

Looks like you love

Jazz dance too.

- Now it's time to meet

Camembert's shining stars.

- My name is tiffany.

- I'm stephanie.

- I'm brittany.

- I'm lisa.

- We dance with new york

Chinese cultural center.

[Intense drumming]

- We're performing

The lion dance.

This dance

Is over , years old.

And usually it's danced

To celebrate during festivals.

♪

- The lions are played

By two people.

One is the head,

And one is the tail.

- They're good lions.

♪

- The little girls

Play with the lion.

And all together,

We try to scare

The evil spirits away

And bring in good luck.

♪

- When you first learn

How to do a cartwheel,

You just can't stop.

The musicians,

They follow along

As we go on in the dance.

♪

During more exciting parts

In the dance,

The music gets louder.

- My part in the dance

Is to tease the lion.

And the lion kind of scares me,

So I have to tease him back.

♪

I get to jump on the lion's back

And ride on him.

Sometimes

It's a little bit hard,

'Cause I have to jump high.

♪

- Chinese dance

Sometimes has acrobatics

To, like, make it feel,

Like, joyful.

♪

- It's fun,

And I love wearing makeup.

♪

[School bell rings]

- That music makes me

Want to tap-dance.

And yippee!

Ms. Mimi is teaching us

Tap dance.

We're starting with soft-shoe,

But soon we'll do it

With tap shoes.

The soft-shoe

Is great fun, though,

So we're not in a hurry.

- Wait till we put on

The tap shoes

And start really dancing.

- Well, most of us

Aren't in a hurry.

- While you're learning

Tap dance,

I'm learning magic.

My uncle gave me this book.

Want to see a trick?

Both: yes, let's see one.

- Abracadabra.

Alamajere.

Watch me pull coins

From behind this nice ear.

- Ow!

- Voila!

Oh, pardon, angelina.

But I don't think you have

The right ears for this trick.

- Shuffle forward, dancers.

Brush your feet

Against the floor.

[Wooden scraping]

Almost any tap dance you do

Will include a shuffle.

Please concentrate, gracie.

[Wooden scraping]

That's it, dancers.

Shuffle.

Sweep the floor

With the bottoms of your feet.

- My dad has some music

That would be good for tap.

Want to come over

To practice?

- Let's go.

- It sounds fun,

But I've been tap-dancing

For almost my whole life.

I don't need to practice.

- Gracie, dear,

I saw that you weren't

Practicing your shuffle.

- I already know how to shuffle,

Ms. Mimi.

See?

- But it's good to brush up

On the basics.

You need to know

The beginning steps

Before moving on.

- But I do, ms. Mimi.

I really do.

Voila!

Look how fast I can do it.

There.

Better, right?

- Your tap doesn't look

Quite like ms. Mimi's, gracie.

- It looks kind of rusty.

You might need to practice

The easy stuff a teensy bit.

- It's because

I didn't warm up.

Actually,

I can do it perfectly.

Look, angelina.

I have a new magic trick.

Can you please be my helper?

- I'm not sure.

I think I'm busy.

- And now may I present

A special trick?

Voila!

Abracadabra.

Alakazara.

Give angelina

A sparkly tiara.

[Audience gasping]

Oops.

Oh, no.

Angelina?

Angelina?

Angelina?

Angelina?

Angelina?

- Hmm?

- Angelina?

Both: angelina?

- Thank goodness I'm no longer

A piece of cheese.

- Please, I need your help.

- Thanks, gracie,

But I'm going to wait

Till you've had

A bit more practice.

My ear still hurts

From the last trick.

- Okay.

I'll do the trick myself.

Alice?

Please hand me

Your lunch bag.

I will be very careful

With it.

Abracadabra.

Alacabunch.

Bird fly out

Of alice's lunch.

Voila!

Birdie?

Oh, birdie.

Ugh.

[Giggles nervously]

I must have forgotten

To wind up the pretend bird

So it would fly.

Ohhh.

- [Gasps]

- Sorry, alice.

My trick was ruined

By your peanut butter.

This is what

I've been waiting for,

To dance a real tap dance.

- Ms. Mimi didn't think

We'd be ready yet.

- It's because we worked so hard

At our beginning steps.

- Aren't you so happy

To be done

With those silly

Beginning steps?

- Not me.

I kind of liked

Learning them.

- Me too.

I don't have to be doing

Hard dances to have fun.

- [Laughs]

I forget that not everyone

Is like me.

I do the easy stuff fast,

Then skip ahead.

- Tapping on the floor

Is like b*ating on a drum.

Shuffle...ball change.

Shuffle...

Ball change.

Bravo!

Pick up the tempo

As the music gets faster.

- Ooh.

[Grunting]

- I'm sorry, gracie.

But I'm not sure you're ready

For this dance.

- Oh, please, ms. Mimi.

Give me a minute.

[Tapping out of rhythm]

- Remember,

There are no shortcuts

With dance.

- But I thought

I was really good at tap.

Why does it feel

So hard today?

- You haven't done

Much tap lately.

Even famous dancers always

Go over the basic steps.

- Maybe I am

A little out of practice.

Oh.

[Wooden shuffling]

I guess I should have listened

To ms. Mimi.

Now I am behind.

- Your tap will come back,

Gracie.

We can practice with you

And help you catch up.

- Really?

- Really, truly.

What are friends for?

[Jazzy music]

♪

♪ You got to float

Before you swim ♪

- ♪ You got to stand

Before you walk ♪

- ♪ You got to learn to count

To play hide-and-go-seek ♪

- ♪ You got to cry

Before you talk ♪

- ♪ A step at a time,

A step at a time ♪

♪ And when that hill

Seems hard to climb ♪

♪ You can get to the top

If you sing my rhyme ♪

♪ Take it a step at a time

♪ You got to sleep

Before you wake ♪

♪ You got to mix

Before you bake ♪

♪ And if you like

This rhythm ♪

♪ Rattle and roll

Before you shake ♪

- ♪ A step at a time,

A step at a time ♪

- ♪ I know that hill

Seems hard to climb ♪

♪ But you can get to the top

If you remember my rhyme ♪

♪ Take it a step at a time

- ♪ Why don't you try it

A step at a time ♪

- ♪ Easy now

♪ A step at a time

[Laughter]

- I'm lucky to have

Such magnifique mouselings

As friends.

[Soft shuffling]

- Remember,

Shuffle, hop, step.

- Ooh.

I used to be able

To do this perfectly.

- Ms. Mimi says to pretend

You're playing music

With your feet.

- I don't remember

Her saying that.

Why didn't I listen?

Sometimes I forget

That I don't know everything.

I thought it would be so boring

To go back to the easy steps.

But it's really not so bad.

- It feels super-duper good

To get it right,

Doesn't it?

- It does.

All I need

Is more practice.

- You're halfway there

Already.

[Applause]

Stupendous!

- I was so busy

With my magic

That I forgot to start

From the beginning.

It had been a while

Since I did some tap.

And I went to the beginning

Of my magic book too,

To the easy tricks.

I wasn't ready

For the harder ones.

- Thank goodness.

Who knows what you would have

Pulled out of my ear?

- So pick a card

And look at it.

But don't show me.

Now put the cards

Back in the deck.

Abracadabra.

Abracazek.

Now I will pull your cards

Out of the deck.

- That's my card.

- Mine too.

How did you do that?

- Hmm, simple.

Le magique.

- Your shuffle looks lovely,

Gracie.

- Your shuffle ball change too.

Ms. Mimi will be proud.

- I hope I can dance

With you now.

- I bet you can.

You're going to be the best

Tap-dancing mouseling

In all of mouseland.

- Shuffle...ball change.

Shuffle...

Ball change.

Excellent work, gracie.

Your feet look first-rate.

- Does this mean

I can put on my tap shoes?

- That's right.

Start tap, tap, tapping

With the others.

[Alice squeals]

One, two, three, and change.

One, two, three,

And change.

Let's speed it up now.

Listen closely to the music.

[Bright music]

♪

- How about if I add

A great big bouncy hop?

- We do one thing at a time

And build on it.

Remember?

- Oops.

Sorry.

There I go again.

- The little steps always come

Before the big steps.

Dancing is like magic.

And getting the steps

Just right

Is the most magical part

Of it all.

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 lions' 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.

[Laughs]

- Hola, marco here.

I'm listening to my friend

Yibiao play the flute.

Did you know that flutes

Have been around

Since the time

Of the cavemen?

Flutes are wind instruments,

Just like recorders.

That means air

Makes the sound.

Do you see how yibiao

Puckers his lips

To push air

Through the flute

And his fingers cover the holes

To make the different pitches?

I want to play flute

At the next camembert parade.

It's easier to carry

Than a tuba.

Gracias, yibiao!