The Puttin’ On The Ritz music video is a creative collaboration between Alpert, artist Glenn Kaino and filmmaker Afshin Shahidi with choreographers Napoleon & Tabitha D’umo from So You Think You Can Dance and produced by Kerith Lemon. One long camera shot follows the lead dancer, Vincent Noiseux on a musical journey and features musicians Lani Hall, Bill Cantos, Hussain Jiffry and Michael Shapiro as well as corps dancers like Kherington Payne and others that have been seen on So You Think You Can Dance, America’s Best Dance Crew, Dancing with the Stars, This is It, Step Up and more.
If you were lucky enough to be in the city of Ustron, or Presov, or Luban, Poznan or Kacwin you may have caught these ladies in concert in June of this year. I’m guessing they won’t be part of a US shed or festival tour this summer.
But hey, they played Paris in May. So maybe a New York date isn’t out of the question.
In addition to Georgian folks songs, Tatuli Mgeladze (თათული მგელაძე), Tako Tsiklauri (თაკო წიკლაური), and Mariam Kurasbediani (მარიამ ქურასბედიანი) have sung traditional songs in Hindi, Hebrew, Polish, Ukranian, Russian, Spanish and Italian.