Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Hayv Kahraman’s new paintings of female contortionists, women’s heads arch backward to meet their buttocks or thighs; sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lauren and Julia Yee, 15-year-old twins and contortionists in the Make 'A' Circus touring summer show, settle in front of the television in their Oakland home to watch a video of a recent performance.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britt Hertz tested whether contortionists could truly push their bodies to breaking.