Britt Hertz performs a variety of difficult contortion poses based on a series of random letter selections.

She's been dubbed the world's bendiest woman and, as these extraordinary pictures show, contortionist Julia Guenthel is nothing if not supple. The blonde bombshell, who performs under the stage name ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian contortionist Zlata poses at the start of the international contortionists conference in Bergisch ...

Britt Hertz and her friends attempt difficult contortion poses while dealing with extreme heat and cold.

Watching a ballet dancer or circus acrobat perform, who hasn't winced at the thought of trying to replicate the impossible flexibility on display? One Dartmouth student, a neuroscience major, wondered ...

Body artist Emma Fay painted contortionist Lowri Thomas to look like a tarantula At first glance this image of a tarantula is realistic enough to scare an arachnophobe. But a closer looks reveals it ...

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 ...