Young contortionists practice at a training school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas (Reuters) By Natalie Thomas ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - Nine-year-old Mongolian schoolgirl ...

The art of contortion creates nearly impossible feats with the human body where toes wiggle next to ears and backs become like bendy straws, but contortionists like Jared Rydelek (pictured here) say ...

For some, a contortionist is nothing more than a freak-show act, doing something unnatural, not a thing of grace or beauty. But in Mongolia, flexing and bending the body into seemingly impossible ...

Students At The International Contortion Convention In Las Vegas Learn How To Bend And Twist Their Bodies. (Janna Karel Las Vegas Review-Journal) ...

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 ...

Some days you're on bottom, some days you're IN it. Out of total fairness, we sure hope these contortionists switch roles every now and then. The International Contortion Convention is going down in ...

Betsy Shuttleworth works on a variety of contortions with her students at her studio in Canonsburg. Here, Zoe Corbin, 9, Carrie Proudfit, 8, and Kamayra Churney, 7, form a pyramid as others students ...

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 ...