In order to travel around the world, Jacki Ward had to bend over backward. Ward, a contortionist for the past five years, has turned her passion for the art form into a $25,000 fellowship that will ...

SEATTLE — Peter Amelia is a trapeze artist and contortionist with Seattle’s Versatile Arts and Arcadia circus schools. "Increasing flexibility has just changed my life so dramatically," Peter said.

This year marks 250 years since the start of modern circus. It was in 1768 that Philip Astley began his circus entertainment in Waterloo in London. To celebrate, here's the latest in our new series of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When she's not in school, 14-year-old Emma Battsooj, of Mongolia, performs as a professional ...

In a semi-private fitness class at Manhattan’s Mercedes Club, a classmate and I eyed each other with apprehension. We were deciding which of us would attempt the backbend first. This was no relaxing ...

Meet one of the UK's bendiest kids who has a unique take on flexible working - and types with her legs bent over her head. Contortionist Roxy Kobyliukh, 13, is happy to do her homework on a lap-top in ...