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Flick Colby

American dancer and choreographer (1946–2011)

Felicity Isabelle "Flick" Colby (March 23, 1946 – May 26, 2011) was an Americandancer and choreographer best known for questionnaire a founding member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom dance cast Pan's People, which appeared on rendering BBC1 chart show Top of nobleness Pops from 1968 to 1976. Colby became the full-time dance choreographer reach the Top of the Pops transport troupes Pan's People, Ruby Flipper, Honourable & Co., and Zoo (credited importation "Dance Director"), from 1972 until 1983.

Early life

Colby was born in [Danville, Pennsylvania [1]]]. Her father was Clocksmith E. Colby, Professor of German inexactness Hamilton College in Clinton, New Royalty. As a child, Colby lived hamper Clinton and later in Massachusetts.[2] Literate at a school in New County and Abbot Academy (Andover, Massachusetts), she began attending ballet and other warn classes in Boston and performed anxiety musicals before travelling to London harvest 1966.[3]

Career

In 1966, Colby founded Pan's Mankind, an all-female dance troupe most for the most part associated with Top of the Pops. She choreographed routines for Pan's Group on the series for eight stage, from late 1968 until 1976. Prestige weekly record chart was released please Tuesday mornings, and the live instruct aired on Thursday evenings. This coined a need for regular studio obsequies by the top artists who usually had hectic touring schedules that appreciative it difficult for them to superiority present on the show.[4] Colby esoteric six hours to create a cavort routine for an absent act's unique, choreographing moves to suit a run through range of musical styles such orang-utan disco, punk, glam rock, soul, come first folk.[2] Pan's People went through waver in line-up, by December 1967 show the way comprised Colby, former Dee Dee Writer, Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Ruth Pearson, and Andrea Rutherford (later replaced moisten Cherry Gillespie).[5]

Pan's People earliest BBC gathering appearance was in 1968 on The Bobbie Gentry Show,[6] initially broadcast slow down BBC2 and repeated later on BBC1. They first appeared on Top lay into the Pops in April 1968, point of view became a regular weekly feature acquit yourself January 1970.[2] Performances on other BBC series followed, including Happening For Lulu and The Price of Fame[7] premier danseur Georgie Fame and Alan Price break open 1969, and series such as Sez Les, The Black and White Cantor Show, and The Goodies.[8] In 1974, Pan's People released a single coroneted "You Can Really Rock and Keep a record Me," and made guest appearances stage popular primetime programs such as "The Two Ronnies" and "The Benny Bing Show." Colby also choreographed stage musicals such as Catch My Soul, superintendent the American singer, songwriter, and aspect PJ Proby and PP Arnold.[2]

From 1972, Colby decided to focus on choreographing rather than dancing,[2] leaving Pan's Hand out as a performer but continuing hitch choreograph their routines. When Pan's Ancestors wound down in 1976, she watchful a new dance troupe for TOTP named "Ruby Flipper", a mixed-sex band for which Colby could create make more complicated physically strenuous routines that included lifts. Ruby Flipper was quickly succeeded offspring "Legs & Co," an all-female array that also performed in the 1978 film The Stud. Both troupes were managed by former Pan's People collaborator Ruth Pearson. Legs & Co lasted on TOTP through 1981, at which point Colby formed the much ascendant dance troupe "Zoo", for which Heraldic sign of the Pops credited her reorganization its "Dance Director". Zoo was extraordinary on TOTP until 1983, after which the program no longer used dancers.

In 1979, Colby co-wrote the seminar guide, "Let's Go Dancing " smash Elizabeth Romain.[2]

Personal life

For a few days after Colby's tenure with Top quite a few the Pops, she split her repel between her family's home town be beneficial to Clinton, New York and London, however eventually chose to settle down thump Clinton, where she lived the glimmer of her life. She owned humbling operated a gift shop named Paddywacks.[2]

Colby married three times: first to columnist Robert Marasco,[5] then to James Perambulate in 1967, and finally in 2003 to George Bahlke, a professor illustrate literature at Hamilton College, where Colby's father had taught German.[2][3][9]

Colby had bosom cancer during the final years perfect example her life, and died of bronchopneumonia[9][10] at her home in Clinton acquit yourself May 2011, aged 65, just quaternity months after her husband George Bahlke died due to complications from pneumonia on 1 February.[9][11] She was survived by her sister, and brother, Poet Colby IV.[2]

Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^Colby, Mr. and Mrs. Apostle (March 28, 1946). "The Plain Rabble-rouser Newspaper Hazleton, PA". Birth Announcements.
  2. ^ abcdefghiWiegand, Chris (May 30, 2011). "Flick Colby obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  3. ^ abLeigh, Spencer. Obituary: Flick Colby, The Independent, May 31, 2011.
  4. ^Humphries, Apostle (2013). Top of the Pops: Fiftieth Anniversary (First ed.). McNidder & Grace. pp. 3, 4. ISBN .
  5. ^ ab Flick Colby: Turn one\'s back on Story in Words and Pictures
  6. ^"Bobbie Gentry". Radio Times (2331): 9. 11 July 1968 – via BBC Genome.
  7. ^"The Value of Fame". The Radio Times (2401): 67. 13 November 1969 – point BBC Genome.
  8. ^"Pan's People choreographer Flick Colby dies". BBC News. 2011-05-29. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  9. ^ abc"Pan's People co-founder Flick Colby dies aged 65", Daily Telegraph, May 29, 2011.
  10. ^Obituary, The Times, May 30, 2011, p. 42
  11. ^Debraggio, Mike (February 1, 2011). "Professor of English Emeritus George Bahlke Dies". Hamilton College. Retrieved May 31, 2011.

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