Disney’s Fantasia may strike the modern viewer as a bit disconcerting at times — not least the bits suffused with themes of fascist spectacle. But TIME would like to draw your attention to the “Dance of the Hours,” a 19th century Italian ballet piece made popular after it was recast in Fantasia in a delightful segment involving pirouetting ostriches, elephants, crocodiles and hippopotamuses. The clip above is of the graceful hippo, the lead dancer having left its watery slumber to twirl and tiptoe around the stage. The resulting scene is one of great humor as well as grace, with these fleshy hippos traipsing ever so delicately along in tutus.
