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 ...

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 ...

It takes a special kind of person to want to be in the circus. You’ve got to flexible, you certainly can’t be afraid of heights — and it probably helps to have a fairly high pain tolerance. In the ...

>> 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 ...

You might not guess it to watch me type, but once upon a time, I was pretty flexible. This is in large part due to a class I took (more years ago than I care to admit) at the San Francisco School of ...

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.

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 ...

Hannah Lam always knew she wanted to travel with the circus, something she started doing as a child. Her parents were traveling circus performers who trained exotic animals such as tigers. At age 12, ...