Sin Cha Hong

Infobox Korean name


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hangul=홍신자
hanja=linktext|洪|信|子
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mr=Hong Sin-cha

Sin Cha Hong (홍신자; b. 1943) is a noted modern dancer, 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 artist. [http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?Itemid=695&id=2637&option=com_content&task=view]

She lived and worked in the United States from the late 1960s until 1990, founding the Laughing Stone Dance Company (웃는돌 무용단) in New York City in 1981. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD1E39F931A35751C1A965948260] She returned to live in South Korea in 1990. She has collaborated with the "gayageum" player Hwang Byungki. She also studied meditation for 30 years, and is known as a meditation master.

External links

* [http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1247 Sin Cha Hong page]
* [http://www.asiasource.org/arts/sinchahong.cfm Sin Cha Hong interview]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DD1F3BF936A25755C0A961948260 "New York Times" article]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD1E39F931A35751C1A965948260 "New York Times" article]