She works with a trusted group of collaborators, using dancers with a wide range of performing experience.
In Pittsburgh, he has introduced a variety of changes, building concerts around themes and using dancers and actors.
"I use ballet dancers and the knowledge in their bodies," he said.
The work uses both singers and dancers.
They have used climbers, dancers with vertical training and performers with no climbing skills in their pieces.
Using dancers as intermediaries between the two does much to adjust one speed to the other.
The larger group uses ballet-trained dancers and recalls the Moiseyev in Russia.
In the end, they come to an agreement on using dancers.
Top of the Pops continued to use professional dancers until 1981, with Colby remaining as the show's choreographer through the entire period.
He was already worried about losing the audience as a result of using African singers and dancers whom many people would not have heard of.