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 ...

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 ...

ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl Suvd-Erdene spends four hours a day perfecting the art of doing a head-stand on a pole clenched with her teeth and push-ups without her feet ...

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 ...

When the monstrous whale Moby Dick engulfs the stage in Lookingglass Theatre’s thrilling staging of Herman Melville’s seafaring classic, Skokie’s Javen Ulambayer is swallowed into the belly of the ...

At the age of 33 when most people are just reaching their career stride, Erdenesuvd Ganbaatar Dunn is already looking forward to retirement in a couple of years. As a contortionist from the age of 10, ...