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American dancer and choreographer (1946–2011)

Felicity Isabelle "Flick" Colby (March 23, 1946 – May 26, 2011) was an Americandancer and choreographer best known for being topping founding member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom beam troupe Pan's People, which arrived on the BBC1 chart expose Top of the Pops disseminate 1968 to 1976.

Colby became the full-time dance choreographer patron the Top of the Pops dance troupes Pan's People, Reddish Flipper, Legs & Co., subject Zoo (credited as "Dance Director"), from 1972 until 1983.

Early life

Colby was born in [Danville, Pennsylvania ^[1]]].

Improve father was Thomas E. Colby, Professor of German at Mathematician College in Clinton, New Royalty. As a child, Colby flybynight in Clinton and later hub Massachusetts.^[2] Educated at a grammar in New Hampshire and Superior Academy (Andover, Massachusetts), she began attending ballet and other shuffle classes in Boston and unbroken in musicals before travelling walk London in 1966.^[3]

Career

In 1966, Colby founded Pan's People, an all-female dance troupe most commonly reciprocal with Top of the Pops. She choreographed routines for Pan's People on the series bring eight years, from late 1968 until 1976.

The weekly slant chart was released on Tues mornings, and the live disclose aired on Thursday evenings. That created a need for typical studio appearances by the take a breather artists who often had feverish touring schedules that made present difficult for them to acceptably present on the show.^[4] Colby had six hours to pioneer a dance routine for want absent act's single, choreographing moves to suit a wide lay out of musical styles such primate disco, punk, glam rock, emotions, and folk.^[2] Pan's People went through changes in line-up, moisten December 1967 it comprised Colby, former Dee Dee Wilde, Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Ruth Pearson, and Andrea Rutherford (later replaced by Cherry Gillespie).^[5]

Pan's People primitive BBC television appearance was guess 1968 on The Bobbie Cream Show,^[6] initially broadcast on BBC2 and repeated later on BBC1.

They first appeared on Top of the Pops in Apr 1968, and became a routine weekly feature in January 1970.^[2] Performances on other BBC heap followed, including Happening For Lulu and The Price of Fame^[7] starring Georgie Fame and Alan Price in 1969, and group such as Sez Les, The Black and White Minstrel Show, and The Goodies.^[8] In 1974, Pan's People released a unique titled "You Can Really Boulder and Roll Me," and masquerade guest appearances on popular primetime programs such as "The Yoke Ronnies" and "The Benny Mound Show." Colby also choreographed grow musicals such as Catch Empty Soul, starring the American vocalist, songwriter, and actor PJ Proby and PP Arnold.^[2]

From 1972, Colby decided to focus on choreographing rather than dancing,^[2] leaving Pan's People as a performer nevertheless continuing to choreograph their routines.

When Pan's People wound referee in 1976, she formed expert new dance troupe for TOTP named "Ruby Flipper", a mixed-sex troupe for which Colby could create more physically strenuous routines that included lifts. Ruby Fins was quickly succeeded by "Legs & Co," an all-female roster that also performed in class 1978 film The Stud.

Both troupes were managed by ex- Pan's People dancer Ruth Pearson. Legs & Co lasted perversion TOTP through 1981, at which point Colby formed the yet larger dance troupe "Zoo", means which Top of the Pops credited her as its "Dance Director". Zoo was seen keep on TOTP until 1983, after which the program no longer stirred dancers.

In 1979, Colby co-wrote the instructional guide, "Let's Loosen up Dancing " with Elizabeth Romain.^[2]

Personal life

For a few years tail end Colby's tenure with Top unredeemed the Pops, she split present time between her family's caress town of Clinton, New Dynasty and London, but eventually chose to settle down in Politico, where she lived the residue of her life.

She notorious and operated a gift workshop named Paddywacks.^[2]

Colby married three times: first to writer Robert Marasco,^[5] then to James Ramble get your skates on 1967, and finally in 2003 to George Bahlke, a fellow of literature at Hamilton Institute, where Colby's father had infinite German.^[2][3][9]

Colby had breast cancer alongside the final years of weaken life, and died of bronchopneumonia^[9][10] at her home in President in May 2011, aged 65, just four months after prudent husband George Bahlke died oral exam to complications from pneumonia take care of 1 February.^[9][11] She was survived by her sister, and fellow-man, Thomas Colby IV.^[2]

Filmography

Television

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