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{{Short description|South Korean dancer (born 1943)}}
{{Infobox Korean name/auto
|hangul = %홍신자
|hanja  = 洪信子
}}

'''Sin Cha Hong''' ({{Korean|hangul=홍신자}}; born 1943) is a noted [[modern dance]]r, [[choreographer]], vocalist, and writer from [[South Korea]]. She is acknowledged as South Korea's first [[avant-garde]] dancer, and has been credited as that nation's premier [[performance art]]ist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?Itemid=695&id=2637&option=com_content&task=view|title=NY Arts Magazine - Home|date=19 March 2015 }}</ref>

She lived and worked in the United States from the late 1960s until 1990, founding the Laughing Stone Dance Company ({{Lang|ko|웃는돌 무용단}}) in [[New York City]] in 1981.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD1E39F931A35751C1A965948260|title = Dance: The Sin Cha Hong Troupe|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2 December 1983|last1 = Dunning|first1 = Jennifer}}</ref> She returned to live in South Korea in 1990. She also spent some time in India, which affected her dance practice.<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Interview with Sin Cha Hong|url=https://asiasociety.org/interview-sin-cha-hong|access-date=2021-09-15|website=Asia Society|language=en}}</ref> She has collaborated with the ''[[gayageum]]'' player [[Hwang Byungki]]. She also studied [[meditation]] for 30 years (which she first began doing in India<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Interview with Sin Cha Hong|url=https://asiasociety.org/interview-sin-cha-hong|access-date=2021-09-15|website=Asia Society|language=en}}</ref>), and is known as a meditation master.

In a 2002 interview, she mentioned that modern dance is becoming more popular in Korea. She mentioned how she had not always been interested in traditional Korean music and dance, but had become so. She also explained how she got the concept of a "laughing stone," which is in the name of her dance company. While meditating, she realized that everything has a spirit, and even a stone can be laughing or crying.<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Interview with Sin Cha Hong|url=https://asiasociety.org/interview-sin-cha-hong|access-date=2021-09-15|website=Asia Society|language=en}}</ref>

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== External links ==
* [http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1247 Sin Cha Hong page]
* [http://www.asiasource.org/arts/sinchahong.cfm Sin Cha Hong interview]
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DD1F3BF936A25755C0A961948260 ''New York Times'' article]

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[[Category:Modern dancers]]
[[Category:South Korean female dancers]]
[[Category:South Korean choreographers]]
[[Category:South Korean women choreographers]]
[[Category:1943 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]


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