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Obituaries
Pan’s People co-founder dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 31 May 2011
Flick Colby, a co-founder of the Pan’s People troupe of dancers who were synonymous with the BBC’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ for much of the seventies, has died aged 65.
Having attended ballet and dance classes in the US, Colby moved to London with her then husband in the sixties, and there got work as a dancer and choreographer, mainly working in TV. She co-founded Pan’s People in 1966. They made regular appearances on ‘TOTP’ over an eight year period, dancing to music by artists unable to appear on the show themselves, this being the era before the pop promo video became the norm.
Colby was also involved in setting up Legs & Co, the dance group successors to Pan’s People on ‘TOTP’. She later returned to the US. She died at her home in Clinton, New York, on Thursday, the group’s publicist confirmed this weekend.
