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 ...

Aleksei is professional circus artist who began circus contortion training at the age of four. Aleksei's training background ...

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 ...

Many people would bend over backwards to avoid performing stunts in front of an audience. But Ariana Ferber-Carter — a professional contortionist and circus coach — is far more flexible, and her ...

Like cats, toddlers are naturally curious — and they love playing in tight spaces. Rumer Willis’s daughter Louetta “Lou” Isley, who turns 2 next month, combined both of these passions for the cutest ...

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 ...

Plenty of people struggle to touch their fingertips to their toes, but that's literally child's play for Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old from Queens, New York. Allison (aka @bomchicka_wawa on ...

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 ...

Miranda Kerr and Hilaria Baldwin may credit a bit of yoga with making their bodies more flexible and supple but a young woman from Britain, who can contort her body into all sorts of shapes, makes the ...

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.