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 ...

Omnium Circus is bringing its jaw-dropping and uplifting show, "I'mPossible," to Kalamazoo. Omnium features a diverse mosaic of performers who are among the finest circus artists in the world ...

Rema Raman is a 50-year-old medical researcher with an office job, but she’s flexible enough to do the splits. At age 43, Anna Kataoka was inactive because of an injury. Now, at 48, she does ...

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 ...

Contortionists and acrobats with celestial skills train in squalid conditions as the promise of a former sumo wrestler to restore the national circus to its past glory has gone mostly unfulfilled.

Following is a transcript of the video. Aleksei: Many people ask me weird questions, and one of them is, "Aleksei, do you have bones?" and I often say, "Yes, I do have bones, but before I go to work, ...

>> WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT COME IN BECAUSE THEY SAW CIRQUE DU SOLEIL AND THEY WANT TO TRY IT BECAUSE THAT LOOKS REALLY FUN. AND IT IS. BUT I COULD TOTALLY SEE IT IN ABBY’S FUTURE. >> IRON CITY ...