Flick Colby

Flick Colby (23 March 1946 – 26 May 2011), 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 Peoplewhich was a fixture on the  BBC 1 chart show  Top of the Pops from 1968 to 1976.

Early life
Born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, her father was Thomas E. Colby, Professor of German at Hamilton College, Clinton, Oneida County, New York and she grew up there and in Massachusetts. Educated at a school in New Hampshire, Colby began attending ballet and other dance classes in Boston and performed in musicals before travelling to London in 1966.

[edit] Top of the Pops career
 Colby was a founding member in December 1966 of Pan's People. After a few changes of line up, by December 1967 the troupe comprised Dee Dee Wilde, Babs Lord, Louise Clarke, Andrea Rutherford and Ruth Pearson. They first appeared on  Top of the Pops  in April 1968, and became a regular weekly feature in 1969. They also appeared on several other BBC programmes including  The Two Ronnies.

After 1971, she concentrated on choreography for Pan's People, and then from 1976 with new troupes she put together for TOTP named Ruby Flipper, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legs_%26_Co. 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). Later, Colby returned to the United States and lived in Clinton. There, she married George Bahlke, a professor of literature, and ran a gift shop, Paddywacks.

[edit] Personal life
Colby married three times: first to Robert Marasco, then to James Ramble in 1967, and finally to Bahlke in 2003 until his death in February 2011. In the last years of her life, she suffered from breast cancer and died ofbronchopneumonia aged 65 at her home in Clinton. She was survived by a brother and a sister.