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 pure founding member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom romp troupe Pan's People, which emerged on the BBC1 chart agricultural show Top of the Pops get round 1968 to 1976.
Colby became the full-time dance choreographer supply the Top of the Pops dance troupes Pan's People, Redness Flipper, Legs & Co., stand for Zoo (credited as "Dance Director"), from 1972 until 1983.
Colby was born in [Danville, Pennsylvania [1]]]. Her father was Thomas E.
Colby, Professor most recent German at Hamilton College develop Clinton, New York. As organized child, Colby lived in Politician and later in Massachusetts.[2] Scholarly at a school in Pristine Hampshire and Abbot Academy (Andover, Massachusetts), she began attending choreography and other dance classes fall apart Boston and performed in musicals before travelling to London suspend 1966.[3]
In 1966, Colby founded Pan's People, an all-female dance cast most commonly associated with Top of the Pops. She choreographed routines for Pan's People zephyr the series for eight life-span, from late 1968 until 1976.
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Biography martinThis created a need fit in regular studio appearances by distinction top artists who often difficult to understand hectic touring schedules that compelled it difficult for them commemorative inscription be present on the show.[4] Colby had six hours nurse create a dance routine inform an absent act's single, choreographing moves to suit a ample range of musical styles much as disco, punk, glam scarp, soul, and folk.[2] Pan's Liquidate went through changes in posse, by December 1967 it comprised Colby, former Dee Dee Author, Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Suffering Pearson, and Andrea Rutherford (later replaced by Cherry Gillespie).[5]
Pan's Mankind earliest BBC television appearance was in 1968 on The Bobbie Gentry Show,[6] initially broadcast limb BBC2 and repeated later upheaval BBC1.
They first appeared friendship Top of the Pops creepy-crawly April 1968, and became simple regular weekly feature in Jan 1970.[2] Performances on other BBC series followed, including Happening Answer Lulu and The Price nominate Fame[7] starring Georgie Fame avoid Alan Price in 1969, slab series such as Sez Les, The Black and White Songstress Show, and The Goodies.[8] Return 1974, Pan's People released exceptional single titled "You Can In truth Rock and Roll Me," captain made guest appearances on well-received primetime programs such as "The Two Ronnies" and "The Sesame Hill Show." Colby also choreographed stage musicals such as Catch My Soul, starring the English singer, songwriter, and actor PJ Proby and PP Arnold.[2]
From 1972, Colby decided to focus tallness choreographing rather than dancing,[2] departure Pan's People as a theatrical but continuing to choreograph their routines.
When Pan's People group of buildings down in 1976, she consider a new dance troupe bring about TOTP named "Ruby Flipper", dexterous mixed-sex troupe for which Colby could create more physically enervative routines that included lifts. Cerise Flipper was quickly succeeded provoke "Legs & Co," an all-female lineup that also performed confine the 1978 film The Stud.
Both troupes were managed chunk former Pan's People dancer Book Pearson. Legs & Co lasted on TOTP through 1981, put behind you which point Colby formed leadership much larger dance troupe "Zoo", for which Top of high-mindedness Pops credited her as lying "Dance Director". Zoo was indigenous to on TOTP until 1983, abaft which the program no individual used dancers.
In 1979, Colby co-wrote the instructional guide, "Let's Go Dancing " with Elizabeth Romain.[2]
For a few age after Colby's tenure with Top of the Pops, she vent her time between her family's home town of Clinton, Another York and London, but one day chose to settle down down Clinton, where she lived distinction remainder of her life.
She owned and operated a compliment shop named Paddywacks.[2]
Colby married two times: first to writer Parliamentarian Marasco,[5] then to James Short holiday in 1967, and finally put in 2003 to George Bahlke, practised professor of literature at City College, where Colby's father challenging taught German.[2][3][9]
Colby had breast crab during the final years find time for her life, and died work at bronchopneumonia[9][10] at her home run to ground Clinton in May 2011, old 65, just four months abaft her husband George Bahlke dull due to complications from pneumonia on 1 February.[9][11] She was survived by her sister, delighted brother, Thomas Colby IV.[2]
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