Sin Cha Hong (Korean: 홍신자; born 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.
[1] 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.
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.