Britt Hertz explores the painful reality of flexible athletes testing their bodies against extreme and controversial ...

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 ...

Britt Hertz attempts painful and seemingly impossible contortion poses alongside elite flexibility experts pushing human ...

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 ...

Self-taught contortionist Sofie Dossi lets us into her daily life as she makes video content with her brother and trains her body for handstands and backbends. She breaks down her entire daily routine ...

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 ...

Can you lick your elbow? We're willing to bet Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old professional contortionist from Brooklyn, can. Schieler's flexibility is way more ...