Felicity Isabelle "Flick" Colby was an American dancer and choreographer best known for being a founding member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom dance troupe Pan's People, which appeared on the BBC1 chart show Top of the Pops from 1968 to 1976.
12 Facts About Flick Colby
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Flick Colby's father was Thomas E Colby, Professor of German at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
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In 1966, Flick Colby founded Pan's People, an all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with Top of the Pops.
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Flick Colby choreographed routines for Pan's People on the series for eight years, from late 1968 until 1976.
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Flick Colby had six hours to create a dance routine for an absent act's single, choreographing moves to suit a wide range of musical styles such as disco, punk, glam rock, soul, and folk.
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From 1972, Flick Colby decided to focus on choreographing rather than dancing, leaving Pan's People as a performer but continuing to choreograph their routines.
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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 Flick Colby could create more physically strenuous routines that included lifts.
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In 1979, Flick Colby co-wrote the instructional guide, "Let's Go Dancing " with Elizabeth Romain.
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Flick Colby owned and operated a gift shop named Paddywacks.
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Flick Colby married three times: first to writer Robert Marasco, then to James Ramble in 1967, and finally in 2003 to George Bahlke, a professor of literature at Hamilton College, where Flick Colby's father had taught German.
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Flick Colby had breast cancer during the final years of her life, and died of bronchopneumonia 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.
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Flick Colby was survived by her sister, and brother, Thomas Colby IV.