Ashley and Domenik have been working together since 2019 and met while they were studying. They remember the first meeting as if it were yesterday.”We were both picking up trash when we started talking. What immediately made us click was the fact that we were both inspired by everything that other people leave behind outside.” Since then, they share all their inspirations and creativity with each other.
We believe in performance as a social practice, a political, intimate practice of transforming and being transformed. Our current research trajectory is based on anarchival approaches to documenting, rhizomic thinking, and worlding. This line of inquiry discourses with our performative explorations.
Ho Yuhan Ashley (she/they, 1999) is a Singaporean artist who works from the perspective of movement. Her work plays across performing, performance-making, writing, graphic design, sound-tinkering, filmmaking, and scenography. She is presently preoccupied with documenting practices, martial arts, and technologies of caring. As a performer, their experience includes processes with Ingrid Berger Myhre, Zarah Bracht, Ula Sickle, David Weber-Krebs, Marjolein Vogels, Coralie Vogelaar, Lee Mun Wai, Dunja Jocic, Dario Tortorelli, and Keren Rosenberg.
Their first poetry collection, without sound now, was published in 2019 by Math Paper Press. Ashley is supported by the Singapore National Arts Council Scholarship in her dancer/maker studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Domenik Naue (he/him, 1998) is a transmedial artist with a background in gymnastics, dance and theatre. He grew up in Weimar, Germany, where he was surrounded by many cultural institutions. This was intimidating at times, yet it stimulated his interest in creating and experiencing art. His work(-ing) combines physical movement, music composition, graphic design and videography. Throughout his teenage-hood he created theatre performances at a youth theatre in collaboration with his friends.
Domenik’s movement background spans dance, gymnastics and circus practices. He has worked as a performer with artists such as Nicole Beutler, Dunja Jocic, Keren Rosenberg, Dario Tortorelli, Corneliu Ganea, Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo and Kazue Ikeda.
Productions by ashleyho+domeniknaue:
At its core, The Bench (2026) exposes disorientation. Characters hover in the paradox of craving withdrawal while yearning for connection; between retreat and action; between the sudden grasping of something and then losing it almost immediately. Rather than offering solutions, this work is a poem on how to stay – with uncertainty, with each other, and with what we are incapable of resolving. The Bench is where we met and where we will meet again. It is an exploration into humour, and saving ourselves through imagination.
A performance within an installation, somewhere between a garden, a hospital, and a graveyard. Two young people intertwine the lives of their families. Amidst an archive of personal documents collected over the years, they navigate the landscape of loss. ashleyho+domeniknaue weave together text, sound, dance, and visual poetry in a new performance-installation exploring loss, grief, and detachment.
Paper Tears (2023) is a patient attempt to let things go. ashleyho+domeniknaue is a collection of limbs and hearts. They use dance, poetry, music and design as an exercise in attention, play and change. How can we find joy in letting go of things that pass, knowing they will return in another form? A journey down the slipway, preserving memories of departure and arrival.
I HAVE LIVED EVERYWHERE BUT HERE
ashleyho+domeniknaue feel at-home, and are out-of-place at the same time. In their performance I HAVE LIVED EVERYWHERE BUT HERE (2022), they question what home means to them in a world that is always shifting. A piece of dance floor is peeled off the stage, and carried out of the theater into an unstable world. Wherever it unrolls, the floor and its inhabitants begin to build themselves a new home. Outside, the floor evolves into a shapeshifting body. Temporary sculptures form and fade, becoming shelters, cavities of intimacy – a living landscape.
songs for friends: a vinyl (2021) is a record that ashleyho+domeniknaue created for their audience. This is a record of loss, and also of growing up – which is almost the same thing. As the record plays from outside-in, the rings of trees are growing from inside-out. Time is spiralling, and we skip rope across it.
Domenik & Ashley – v3 from Dansateliers on Vimeo.