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 ...

You might not guess it to watch me type, but once upon a time, I was pretty flexible. This is in large part due to a class I took (more years ago than I care to admit) at the San Francisco School of ...

If you’ve ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, you’ll know the performances are always filled with death-defying stunts and feats of great strength that will often have audiences gasping in both fear ...

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 ...

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 so her feet flip past her head from ...

We took a trip to the circus as Cirque du Soleil hit the UAE. So what’s it like growing up in the circus? Until Cirque du Soleil, I was just a normal kid at contortion school,’ I’m told in breezy ...