Sextile, the stark and intense post-punk/industrial duo from Los Angeles, haven't been around in the past few years. The band released a couple of albums in the last decade, and they went on ...

During the 40 years since Cirque du Soleil began in Montreal and transformed contemporary circus into a global phenomenon, the so-called “circus arts” ― including aerial, acrobatics, juggling, sleight ...

Balancing on the palms of his hands, Odgerel Gombo folds his spine and bends his knees so that his toes rest comfortably on his shoulders. The contortionist from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, traveled and ...

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 believe that extreme flexibility and contortion skills are limited to the young. Anna McNulty’s remarkable journey challenges this notion, showing that talent knows no age. Born in 2002 in ...

In order to travel around the world, Jacki Ward had to bend over backward. Ward, a contortionist for the past five years, has turned her passion for the art form into a $25,000 fellowship that will ...

For some, a contortionist is nothing more than a freak-show act, doing something unnatural, not a thing of grace or beauty. But in Mongolia, flexing and bending the body into seemingly impossible ...