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

Britt Hertz explores how contortion styles have evolved over the last hundred years by attempting iconic flexibility poses ...

Yakov is a 29-year-old ultra-Orthodox man from Bnei Brak who has secretly been attending contortion classes, a training method that works on achieving extreme flexibility, for the last four months.

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 ...

Body artist Emma Fay painted contortionist Lowri Thomas to look like a tarantula At first glance this image of a tarantula is realistic enough to scare an arachnophobe. But a closer looks reveals it ...

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 ...

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