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 ...

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

As one woman in glittering Lycra gently bends her legs backwards over her head, another balances on top, slowly twisting her own limbs into a human pretzel. They move as one – a fantastical insect ...

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 ...