Twyla Tharp describes a life of dedication ahead of company’s OC and LA performances

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Twyla Tharp describes a life of dedication ahead of company’s OC and LA performances

By the time Twyla Tharp left Southern California for New York City in 1961, she was pretty sure the pre-med major she’d embarked on at Pomona College would not be the degree she finished with at Barnard College on the Upper West Side. “I came to Barnard all the while harboring in the back of my mind that I was coming to New York to study dance,” says Tharp, 83, on a recent phone call from her home in New York City. “Because I had pretty much pas…