Zoe's Dance Moves
Zoe's Dance Moves is a direct-to-video Sesame Street DVD, featuring a guest appearance by Paula Abdul. It was first released in 2003, then re-released as part of the 3-DVD set Get Ready to Dance and Move! in 2005.
Zoe and Elmo are taking dance lessons, but Elmo forgets his dance shoes and goes off to get them. When Zoe arrives, she finds out that she missed dance class, but the teacher, Paula Abdul, offers Zoe's help in choreographing a new dance move. Through each dance moves, Zoe learns about certain dance moves from traditional ballet to hip hop dance. By the time Zoe and Paula Abdul finish creating their new dance moves, Elmo finds his dancing shoes and is ready to dance along with them.
Segments[]
- Animation: Zoe narrates an animation of a ballet painting by Edgar Degas. (First: Episode 4140)
- Big Bird counts 6 "birds," himself and 3 dancers, Tarah, and Snuffy in bird ballet outfits.
- Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk: Caribbean dance (Part 3 only) (First: Episode 3136)
- Film: Kids rehearse a large group African dance in the park, get their faces painted, and perform. (First: Episode 3079)
- Cartoon: Birds dance fast and slow. (Original vocals removed) (First: Episode 3072)
- Baby Tooth and the Fuzzy Funk - Chinese dragon dance (Part 2 only) (First: Episode 3390)
- Animation: Hop, shake your head, and wriggle like an octopus. (First: Episode 4030)
- Song: "Get On Up and Move Your Body" (First: Episode 3410)
- Cartoon: Noodles & Nedd: Nedd shows Noodles how to do a particular dance. (First: Episode 3851) (intro and outro cut)
- Savion plays a rhyming game. (remake) (First: Episode 3355)
- Animation: Mannequins tap dance in a store window. (First: Episode 4050)
- Film: None, some and all of the dancers dance (which Paula Abdul narrates as different kinds of dance). (First: Episode 3360)
- Film: Bill Irwin breakdances at a bus stop (edited) (First: Episode 2919)
- Song: Dancin' Shoes (played over the credits) (First: Episode 2949)
Other releases[]
VHSSony Wonder
DVDSony Wonder (back)
Australia (VHS)2004
ABC Video for Kids
ABC Video for Kids
Singapore and Malaysia (VCD)Berjaya HVN
cat. no 592003
cat. no 592003
Singapore and Malaysia (DVD)2009
Berjaya HVN
Berjaya HVN
China (DVD)2010
DVD2012
Oznoz
Chinese audio track
Oznoz
Chinese audio track
Credits[]
- Producer: Dionne Nosek
- Co-Producer: Kevin Clash
- Written by Annie Evans
- Sara Compton, Judy Freudberg, Ian James, Cathi Rosenberg-Turow, Nancy Sans (archive material)
- Directed by Emily Squires
- Ted May, Lisa Simon, Jon Stone (archive material)
- Line Producer: Deborah Mayer
- Starring Fran Brill as Zoe
- With Special Guest Star Paula Abdul
- With Muppet Performers
- Kevin Clash as Elmo
- John Tartaglia, Matt Vogel, Ron Binion
- Martin P. Robinson, Bryant Young, and Caroll Spinney
- Choreography by Brian Thomas, Paula Abdul
- Dancers: Elena Mercedes Bello, Eamon Foley, Elizabeth Tina Moy, Jamal Wyse
- Music Director: Mike Renzi
- Costume Designers: Bill Kellard, Terry Roberson
- Senior Muppet Consultant: Kevin Clash
- Jim Henson's Muppet Workshop: Jason Weber, Rollie Krewson, Michael Schupbach, Sarah Iams, Victoria Ellis
- Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
- Graphic Artist: Pete Ortiz
- Video Engineer: Tom Guadarrama
- Audio: Blake Norton, Carla Bandini-Lory
- Camera: Frank Biondo, Shawn Harkins, Pat Minetta, Jimmy O'Donnell
- Utilities: Gordon Price, Chuck Tutino
- Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
- Additional Songs by Stephan Clemente, Leo Delibes, Andrew Erzin, Kenneth Field, Jody Gray, Carol Hall, M. P. Hwang, Gail Sky King, Randy Klein, Robert Merkin, Michael Olatunji, Tom Spahn, Ken Winokur
- Vice President, Education & Research: Rosemarie Truglio, PH.D.
- For The Jim Henson Company: Jill Colley, Janelle Courts, Joey Roddy
- For Sesame Workshop: Heather Hanssen, Peter MacKennan, Valerie Mitchell, Tamra Seldin
- Special Thanks to April Chadderdon, Ken Diego, Karen Ialacci, Carol-Lynn Parente, Arlene Sherman, Karin Shiel