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

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

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 ...

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 ...

She’s been dubbed the world’s bendiest woman and, as these extraordinary pictures show, contortionist Julia Guenthel is nothing if not supple. The blonde bombshell, who performs under the stage name ...

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 ...

Oct. 18 (UPI) --An acrobatic contortionist from Austria earned her ninth Guinness World Record by holding the dimbasana yoga pose for 30 minutes, 3 seconds. Stefanie Millinger, 30, broke her first ...

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 ...