In this challenge, contortionists attempt extreme bends and poses. Experts warn the internet will go down in a big way — and ...

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 ...

Captain Frodo has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which makes his joints hypermobile.(Perou) How do contortionists become so flexible that they can fold in two or fit into impossibly small spaces? Are these ...

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.

Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a headstand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet touching the ground. She ...

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