Don Herbison-Evans, M.A., D.Phil. (oxon), Dip. Dance Ed.

donherbisonevans@yahoo.com
(updated 24 October 2003)


with partner Anna Piper
(Photo: Neville Lowe)

Don Herbison-Evans is

and is a very proud grandfather.

He is the author of the NUDES computer animation system. He has recently been co-lecturing Introduction to Computer Graphics at the University of Technology Sydney.

His 80 publications and technical reports to date range over:

  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,
  • Microwave Antenna Design
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Animation
  • Dance, and
  • Dance Notation

    His on-line pages include:

  • A program that prints itself
  • Solving Quartic and Cubic Equations
  • Animated Cartoons by Computers Using Ellipsoids
  • Rapid Raster Ellipsoid Shading
  • The NUDES animation System
  • 4D Computer Output
  • Dance and the Computer
  • Computer Animation of the Merrilyn
  • Robots and Dancing
  • Objectifying Information About Dance
  • Digital Duet
  • A Dancer Among Us
  • LED & LINTER: An X-Window Labanotation Editor and Interpreter
  • Revised Grammar for the Foxtrot
  • A Ballet Animation Language
  • Symmetry and Dance
  • Perception of the Fleeting Moment in Dance
  • Gender & Choreography: An Irrational Tango
  • History of Modern Ballroom Dancing
  • History of Latin & American Dancing
  • Scottish Country Dancing
  • Noh Dancing
  • English Old Time Dancing
  • Exhibition Dancing
  • Ballroom Dance Studios Sydney
  • Ballroom Dance Studios NSW and ACT
  • Ballroom Dancing in Sydney
  • Australian Dance Links
  • Australian New Vogue Dancing on the Web
  • Dance Competitions in NSW
  • Dancing in the Olympics 2000 Closing Ceremony
  • The Interferometer
  • Caterpillars of Australian Moths and Butterflies
  • Dinosaurs Dancing in the Country
  • Australia vs New Zealand Showdance
  • Comforting Thoughts,
  • Sequenced Music for New Vogue Dancing,
  • Waltzing on a KDF9,
  • Why Can't I Slow Down,

    as well as:

  • A Curiculum Vitae and
  • An Autobiography.

    His interests include:

  • various forms of Dancing
  • rearing larvae of native Australian Butterflies and Moths,
  • keeping fresh and salt water native Australian aquaria, and
  • UFO's.

    His abiding academic obsession has been the design and study of languages for the description and prescription of human movement. Deciding that dancers have been designing sytems for communicating movement for centuries, he has been learning and studying many forms of dance :

  • Ballroom Dancing (Senior B Grade, 17 years, many teachers, lately Bob Field, Sydney)
  • Latin & American Dancing (Senior B Grade, 16 years, many teachers, lately Neale & Nicole Byrnes, Sydney)
  • New Vogue Dancing (Senior B Grade, 15 years, many teachers, lately Ian Gillard, Sydney)
  • Classical Ballet (7 years, many teachers, most recently Ann Butt-D'Hau, Sydney)
  • Contemporary Modern Dance (5 years, many teachers, most recently Ann Butt-D'Hau, Sydney)
  • Jazz Dancing (5 years, many teachers, most recently Sam Emmans, Sydney)
  • Contact Improvisation (5 years, many teachers, most recently Pru Jones, Sydney)
  • Tap (5 years, many teachers, most recently Peggy Watson, Sydney)
  • Clogging (1 year, with Sonya Volzke, Bundaberg)
  • Exhibition Dancing (3 years, with George Czender, Sydney)
  • Folk Dancing (1 year, Kitchener-Waterloo Folk Dance Club)
  • Sacred Dance (6 months, with Nina De Shane, Toronto)
  • Argentine Tango (4 months, with Neville Boyd, Sydney)
  • Scottish Country Dancing (3 months, with Olivia Roberts, Sydney)
  • Square Dancing (3 months, with Shirley Kelly, Bundaberg)
  • Renaissance Dance (3 months, with Waterloo University Renaissance Dancers)
  • Break Dance (3 months, Newport Community Centre, Sydney)
  • Line Dancing (10 classes, Kay Longhurst, Brisbane)
  • English Old Time Dancing (Adult D Grade, 2 lessons, Brad Cherrie, Patrick Sweeney, Sydney)
  • Round Dancing (3 classes with Shirley Kelly, Bundaberg)

    also

  • Labanotation (3 years, Rhonda Ryman, Ronne Arnold and Drid Williams)
  • Benesh Dance Notation (18 months, Rhonda Ryman, Waterloo)

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    50 images from dance history to computer animation: 1.3 MB total