LAGOS (Reuters) - Her family wanted her to be a doctor or a lawyer, but on discovering as a teenager she could contort her body in unusual ways, Nigerian Ifeoma Amazobi decided that would be how she ...

Emma Fay doesn’t need a canvas or an easel to show off her out-of-this-world painting skills. Just give her an insanely flexible model and watch as her astonishing artwork comes to life. The ...

One of the most jaw-dropping acts in “Metamorphosis,” this year’s Big Apple Circus show, occurs when contortionist Odbayasakh Dorjoo fits her entire body inside an impossibly small transparent box.

Louisiana-born Lance Centanni-Sachs started studying Mongolian contortion at the age of 23. Now at 29, he is preparing for his second trip to Mongolia as part of a documentary project to trace the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Six contortionists who worked on the set of the new Jamie Foxx/Snoop Dogg vampire film Day Shift ...

In this challenge, gymnasts and contortionists face off in flexibility tests. How a Russian Jet Fighter Nearly Collided with ...

Emma Fay is a ridiculously talented artist who occasionally hangs out with also very talented contortionists. When she does this, she whips out the body paint, and transforms them into stunning works ...

To East Berlin last week went the intellectual acrobats and performing seals of Communism’s traveling peace circus. Two hundred strong, they staged their third meeting of the World Peace Council ...