Cleo Hartley

Her solo Tidal, performed at last spring’s faculty concert and built from texts she gathered during coastal fieldwork, is the clearest window into what Cleo Hartley makes: dances that treat a landscape as a collaborator rather than a backdrop. A senior from Bakersfield, California, she majors in dance and minors in environmental studies at Ardenwood University, and the two rarely sit far apart in her thinking.…Read more