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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 ...

STAMFORD -- A five-girl Mongolian contortionist group twisted and bent their bodies on a tight, circular stage, giving a cheering lunchtime audience at Columbus Park a sneak peak into the Big Apple ...

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

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.

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 ...

Larry de Wit has been the tour manager for the Chinese State Circus since it first came to Britain in March 2000. This year's particular acrobatic troupe is from Cheng Chun, a town outside Beijing.