Flick Colby
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Legs & Co., and Zoo on Top of the Pops ) |
Felicity Isabelle "Flick" Colby (March 23, 1946 – May 26, 2011) was an
Early life
Colby was born in
Career
In 1966, Colby founded
Pan's People earliest BBC television appearance was in 1968 on The
From 1972, Colby decided to focus on choreographing rather than dancing,[1] leaving Pan's People as a performer but continuing to choreograph their routines. When Pan's People wound down in 1976, she formed a 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 Flipper was quickly succeeded by "Legs & Co," an all-female lineup that also performed in the 1978 film The Stud. Both troupes were managed by former Pan's People dancer Ruth Pearson. Legs & Co lasted on TOTP through 1981, at which point Colby formed the much larger dance troupe "Zoo", for which Top of the Pops credited her as its "Dance Director". Zoo was seen on TOTP until 1983, after which the program no longer used dancers.
In 1979, Colby co-wrote the instructional guide, "Let's Go Dancing " with Elizabeth Romain.[1]
Personal life
For a few years after Colby's tenure with Top of the Pops, she split her time between her family's home town of Clinton, New York and London, but eventually chose to settle down in Clinton, where she lived the remainder of her life. She owned and operated a gift shop named Paddywacks.[1]
Colby married three times: first to writer Robert Marasco,[4] then to James Ramble in 1967, and finally in 2003 to George Bahlke, a professor of literature at Hamilton College, where Colby's father had taught German.[1][2][8]
Colby had breast cancer during the final years of her life, and died of bronchopneumonia[8][9] at her home in Clinton in May 2011, aged 65, just four months after her husband George Bahlke died due to complications from pneumonia on 1 February.[8][10] She was survived by her sister, and brother, Thomas Colby IV.[1]
Filmography
Television
Year | Programme | Channel | Notes |
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2001 | The True Story of TOTP | BBC One | Guest |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiegand, Chris (May 30, 2011). "Flick Colby obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
- ^ a b Leigh, Spencer. Obituary: Flick Colby, The Independent, May 31, 2011.
- ISBN 9780857160522.
- ^ a b PansPeople.com Flick Colby: Her Story in Words and Pictures
- ^ "Bobbie Gentry". Radio Times (2331): 9. 11 July 1968 – via BBC Genome.
- ^ "The Price of Fame". The Radio Times (2401): 67. 13 November 1969 – via BBC Genome.
- ^ "Pan's People choreographer Flick Colby dies". BBC News. 2011-05-29. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ^ a b c "Pan's People co-founder Flick Colby dies aged 65", Daily Telegraph, May 29, 2011.
- ^ Obituary, The Times, May 30, 2011, p. 42
- ^ Debraggio, Mike (February 1, 2011). "Professor of English Emeritus George Bahlke Dies". Hamilton College. Retrieved May 31, 2011.