last footprint: kind of 30 august 2025
ashleyho+domeniknaue is a collection of limbs and hearts. We create transmedial performative encounters, playing across dance, poetry, graphic design, and scenographic experiments.
We believe in performance as a prefigurative practice—a political, intimate process of transforming and being transformed. More than a focus on specific thematics, our processes propose a way of being with the world, that confronts harshness through vulnerability and playfulness. The urgencies of how to move through this grieving, fighting world steer our conversations. In this vein, ecological concerns play a defining role in our artistic decisions, not as an afterthought. Scoring/objects/traces/absence/touch/attention permeate our explorations. Our practice manifests as stage performances, site-specific work, installations, film, and print documents.
Our collaboration has been nurtured by friendship since 2019. We graduated from the Dancer/Maker Bachelor's programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts in 2022, and are currently based in Amsterdam. Our work has been presented in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Singapore.
From 2024-2026, ashleyho+domeniknaue receives the Nieuwe Makers Regeling from Fund Performing Arts NL, in partnership with Dansateliers and SPRING Performing Arts Festival. We are associate artists at Dance Nucleus (Singapore).
AMANDA HARPUT
ho yuhan ashley (she/they, b. 1999) is a Singaporean artist who works from the perspective of movement. their work plays across performance,-making, writing, graphic design, moving image, & scenography.
she is presently preoccupied with artmaking as a practice of collective agency – how can we build practices to resist capitalist pathways of thought and action! ashley has a persistent curiosity for composition, and a love for sharing playful, non-productive time together.
as a performer, they have worked with choreographers & directors including Arno Schuitemaker, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Ula Sickle, Zarah Bracht, David Weber-Krebs, Melyn Chow, Dries Verhoeven, Marjolein Vogels, and Coralie Vogelaar. in their solo performance work, they develop movement practices that meditate on departure, corporeal and technological methodologies of measuring, and memory.
ashley's writing has been published in artistic research journals such as Leonorana Revista and FUSE by Dance Nucleus, and her first poetry collection, Without Sound Now, was published in 2019 by Math Paper Press. their poetry practice lives in private moments, occasionally performed during literary events.
in 2022, ashley completed their dancer/maker studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands, with the support of the Singapore National Arts Council Scholarship.
Domenik Naue (de 1998) is a transdisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands. He studied dance at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln before completing his BA studies in dance and choreography at ArtEZ
University of the Arts in Arnhem.
Domenik has a background in theatre, gymnastics, and circus, all of which have a significant impact on his art making today. He writes music and poetry which often occur in his pieces, and has been participating in several choreographic works as a dancer and co-creator.
Since 2019 he is working in close collaboration with Ashley Ho, together they create performances as ashleyho+domeniknaue. Over the past 5 years they have been developing a transdisciplinary artistic practice and presented work in theatres, public spaces, and visual arts contexts, as well as creating several research papers and publications.
Their work is supported internationally by institutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Singapore. Beyond performing his own work, Domenik’s experience as a performer includes working with artists such as Nicole Beutler, Samara Hersch, Dario Tortorelli, Keren Rosenberg, and Dunja Jocic.