Ted Rogers
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Talk Art special episode with WePresent!!!
We meet TED ROGERS, a multidisciplinary artist based in Margate working predominantly with movement. Ted explores the extremities of movement through the neurodivergent and non binary lens; plowing their unwavering and infectious energy into any and all mediums, with a particular focus on entertainment and the deeper emotional aspects of humanity.
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience within their debut solo show at Quench Gallery. They trained professionally in Musical Theatre before moving to London and finding nightlife, queer culture, gogo-dancing, drag, fashion, music and contemporary dance.
Ted's collaborations have included renowned contemporary artists such as: Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan, Lindsey Mendick, Jenkin Van Zyl, Holly Blakey, Anthea Hamilton & Lucy Mcormick. Ted is currently the performance artist in Residence at Tracey Emin's TKE studios following a sell out commission to open the studios with a performance called "Valentine”.
Follow @ArtPornBlog on Instagram and visit Ted's website: https://www.MxRogers.com/
Russell Tovey is WeTransfer’s third Guest Curator across 2023 where he spotlights LGBTQIA+ artists that have inspired him. The selected artists of the Guest Curatorship have been given a platform on WePresent, the arts arm of WeTransfer, and on these TalkArt episodes.
As part of this collaboration, WePresent will also launch Russell Tovey’s documentary Life is Excellent and present a tour of four performances of BLUE NOW, a live version of Derek Jarman’s film BLUE directed by Neil Bartlett and performed by Russell Tovey alongside three other performers.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon. Good evening. Where have you are in the world? I'm Russell Tovy and I'm Robert Dianne. This is Talkart. Welcome to Talkart. Talkart! |
| 0:12.0 | We've even got a dog here. We've got Teddy. Teddy's vocal. Teddy's vocal. Where are we in the world, Robert? |
| 0:23.0 | We are at Quench Gallery in Margate, which is an artist, run space, Lindsey Mendes and Guy Oliver were the founders, |
| 0:30.0 | and they now have a whole extended team of amazing people who are even running education programs, such as Gemma Farrow, who we love. |
| 0:39.0 | And yeah, we're in front of a live audience. And yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | How are you feeling today, Robert? |
| 0:44.0 | Today, Russell, I am feeling like a vile diva. It's something that I feel very accustomed to, because in my childhood, for the first 10 years, |
| 0:56.0 | the main passion I had was ballet and dance. And it wasn't art. It wasn't music even. It was ballet. |
| 1:01.0 | How often would you be ballet dancing? Maybe twice a week. Really? |
| 1:06.0 | It took it really seriously. And I wanted to go to the Royal Ballet School. And they told me I was going to be too tall, |
| 1:11.0 | because my dad was six foot two or three. And back then, you had to stop growing essentially. |
| 1:16.0 | If you wanted to be a male dancer, this is like 1980s. They wanted you to be probably max about five eight. |
| 1:22.0 | And there was this real strict thing. I think it was to do with classical ballet. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, like there were sort of traditions. And being tall wasn't a thing. |
| 1:28.0 | Is that still the case? No, no. Now there's rebels who have broken all those boundaries. |
| 1:33.0 | And there are giants, yes. And also, there's also dance troops now who, or dance groups, even, |
| 1:40.0 | who dance like male and male, you know, a gay kind of relationship. |
| 1:44.0 | Or that all these kind of many pluralities of the way you can exist. |
| 1:48.0 | But back in those days, it was like a woman in a tutu and a man who would be the kind of prince. |
| 1:52.0 | You know, there was very binary interventions. Yeah. |
| 1:54.0 | So were you upset when they wouldn't let you continue ballet? |
| 1:57.0 | To be really honest, I had a fetish in my childhood of wanting to own ballet shoes. |
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