MEET Maria Pucciarelli – a super-flexible contortionist who has spent hours in training to realise he dream. Maria, 19, from New York, has spent thousands of hours training – including being stood on ...

This year marks 250 years since the start of modern circus. It was in 1768 that Philip Astley began his circus entertainment in Waterloo in London. To celebrate, here's the latest in our new series of ...

The art of contortion creates nearly impossible feats with the human body where toes wiggle next to ears and backs become like bendy straws, but contortionists like Jared Rydelek (pictured here) say ...

If you don’t know who Rachel Fit is, you haven’t been paying much attention to social media lately. Rachel has been gaining the likes of regular social media lovers as well as celebrities all due to ...

It's school, but not as most schoolchildren know it. These Chinese children are trainees at the Fei Yan Acrobatics Troupe, and dream of performing around the world. With lessons from morning til night ...

Adventurous Calgarians are limbering up for some pretty unusual training this weekend. They’re preparing to get bent way out of shape at a coaching session with veteran contortionist Samantha Halas.

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 ...

A TEEN bends over backwards to do her schoolwork while honing her skills as a contortionist. Super-flexible Roxy Kobyliukh, 13, regularly arches her body completely ...