Question: What is the name of the famous dancer, taught by Richard Thomas, that formed her own dance company in 1966?
Context: Germaul Barnes was born June 2, 1971 in Phoenix, Arizona where he studied at The Center of Performing Arts at South Mountain High School, Phoenix School of Ballet and Ballet Arizona.  Currently living in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder and artistic director of Viewsic Dance, a dance organization dedicated to the development of local and international contemporary dancers.  He continued his dance training at the University of the Arts-Philadelphia.  In the early part of his career, he performed with Bill T. Jones/Arine Zane Dance Company where he received the 2003 BESSIES -New York and Performance Award, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Jose Tmim, Movement Source Dance Company, Group Motions Dance Company, Pacific Conservatory Theatre and as guest performer with numerous ballet and contemporary dance company worldwide.  He formed Viewsic Dance-VD (formerly Viewsic Expressions) in 1993 and has since created over 50 works for this project-by-project company. Dancer and choreographer Ronald K. Brown founded the dance company Evidence in New York in 1985.  Brown's work incorporates modern dance, Senegalese Sabar and other West African movement vocabularies, Afro-Caribbean dance, and contemporary urban dance from around the world.  He has choreographed numerous works for his own company, as well as for Philadanco, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Maimouna Keita West African Dance Company, and many others.  Brown has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie Award, a Black Theater Alliance Award, and an Audelco Award for the choreography of Regina Taylor's musical Crowns.  He has also been a guest artist at The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts.  He studied dance with Mary Anthony. Rambert Dance Company is a leading British dance company.  Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, continues to be one of the world's most renowned dance companies.  It has previously been known as the Ballet Club, and the Ballet Rambert. Richard Scott Thomas (December 3, 1925 – July 27, 2013) was an American dancer, educator, and co-founder of the New York School of Ballet along with his wife Barbara Fallis.  He is known as a teacher of Eliot Feld and Twyla Tharp Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by the famous dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor.  The modern dance company is based in New York, New York and was founded in 1954. Twyla Tharp ( ; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City.  In 1966, she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance.  Her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music. PMT Dance Company is the repertory company for the studio.  It is under the direction of Pavan Thimmaiah and its Assistant Director is Alan Watson.  PMT Dance Company incorporates original music and a storyline into elements of Hip Hop, Funk, and Jazz dance.  Its credits include the International Bollywood Movie Awards and Sensing Peace Documentary Gala and the International Dance Festival where Pavan Thimmaiah was a featured choreographer in a night honoring male choreographers entitled "Men at Work."  In addition, PMT Dance Company was chosen to perform in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition in July 2006.  In 2008, PMT Dance Company completed a run of their first feature length production called "Struck..." "Struck..." was a collaborative effort which featured a culmination of work by Pavan Thimmaiah as well as the choreography of Jed Forman, Yesid Lopez and Alan Watson.  The show was eventually featured on the Sundance Channel.  "Struck..." is scheduled for a 2011 production. Bertram Ross (November 14, 1920 – April 20, 2003) was an American dancer best known for his work with the Martha Graham Dance Company, with which he performed for two decades.  He was Martha Graham’s longtime dance partner and the originator of male roles in most of her major ballets from the 1950s and 1960s, including Adam in Embattled Garden, and both Agamemnon and Orestes in Clytemnestra.  After leaving Graham's company, Ross taught, choreographed and formed his own dance company.  In later life, he toured in a cabaret duo with his real life partner, the composer and pianist John Wallowitch. Bill Evans is a choreographer, performer, teacher, administrator, writer and movement analyst.  More than 250 of Evans' works have been performed by professional and pre-professional ballet, modern dance and tap dance companies throughout the United States, including his own Bill Evans Dance Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Ballet West, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Ruth Page Chicago Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, Stars of American Ballet at Jacob's Pillow, Chicago Tap Theatre, Rochester City Ballet, FuturPointe Dance and many other companies.  He has also created works for companies in Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. Richard Thomas (1837–1916) was an English tin plate manufacturer.  He was the founder of Richard Thomas & Co., which later merged with Baldwins Ltd to become Richard Thomas and Baldwins, which in turn was absorbed into British Steel Corporation in the 1960s.
Answer: Twyla Tharp