High-level tricks with the human body! Let’s check them right now! The human body is capable of incredible feats of flexibility,balance, and control. We are testing extreme contortion poses and ...

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 ...

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 how contortion styles have evolved over the last hundred years by attempting iconic flexibility poses from every era.

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 ...