I teamed up with Zara to recreate contortion tricks from different decades and see how much the art has changed over the last 100 years. We tried everything from classic duo moves and backbends to ...

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 ...

She continued: “That’s when the choreographer told me not to bend too much more than the others – especially in backbends.” Anastasia’s first love was dance, rather than contortion – seeming to take ...

FLEXIBLE Christine Danton, 71, chats about her life as a contortionist, revealing her lithe body can still perform a trick she perfected when she was just seven years old. Sixty-four years on, her ...