If you’ve ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, you’ll know the performances are always filled with death-defying stunts and feats of great strength that will often have audiences gasping in both fear ...

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In a clime where not all talents are embraced, and ‘different’ is viewed as being ‘abnormal’, two Nigerian sisters, Diva, 11, and Posh, 9, and contortionists, have embarked on a mission to change the ...

As one woman in glittering Lycra gently bends her legs backwards over her head, another balances on top, slowly twisting her own limbs into a human pretzel. They move as one – a fantastical insect ...

In order to travel around the world, Jacki Ward had to bend over backward. Ward, a contortionist for the past five years, has turned her passion for the art form into a $25,000 fellowship that will ...

Ricardo Sosa, a native of Cuba, has been a contortionist for most of his life. At 52 years old, he is world renowned in his profession, but even with his fame, he has kept the humility of a graceful ...

ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a head-stand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet ...