Flick Colby (born Felicity Isabelle Colby, was an American dancer and choreographer best known for being a founder member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom dance troupe Pan's People which was a fixture on the BBC 1 chart show Top of the Pops from 1968 to 1976.(23 March 1946 – 26 May 2011)
Born in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, her father was Thomas E. Colby, Professor of German at Hamilton College,[1] Clinton, Clinton County, New York and she grew up there and in Massachusetts.[2] Educated at a school in New Hampshire, Colby began attended ballet and other dance classes in Boston and performed in musicals before travelling to London in the 1966.[3] She founded Pan's People with Dee Dee Wilde, Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Andrea Rutherford and Ruth Pearson in December 1966.
They first appeared on Top of the Pops in April 1968, and became a regular weekly feature in 1969.[2] They also appeared on several other BBC programmes including The Two Ronnies.
After 1971, she concentrated on choreography with new troupes she put together for TOTP named Ruby Flipper, Legs & Co. (with Ruth Pearson) and Zoo. She also choreographed the rock musical Catch My Soul, and co-wrote an instructional book, Let's Go Dancing (1979).[2] Later, Colby returned to the United States and lived in Clinton. There, she married George Bahlke,[3][4] a professor of literature, and ran a gift shop, Paddywacks.[2]
Colby married twice, firstly to James Ramble in 1967, a union which ended in divorce,[when?] and in 2003 to Bahlke, who died in February 2011.[1][4][3] In the last years of her life, she suffered from breast cancer and died of bronchopneumonia[4] aged 65[5] at her home in Clinton.[4] She was survived by a brother and a sister.[2] Her funeral is scheduled for 17 June 2011.[6]
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