I began to feel how my movement was affected by years of oppression and a need to conform. By examining how these experiences illustrate an embodied performance of gender, my project s …

In the Indian circus, female contortion acts appear on programs complemented by grotesque dwarf clown acts, bizarre animal acts, magicians, musclewomen, trapeze artists, gymnasts, …

Research into the neural underpinnings of body representation implicates several brain regions including extrastriate and fusiform body areas (EBA and FBA), supe-rior temporal sulcus …

Contortionists are sometimes described as having Ehler’s-Danlos syndrome. However, without an actual genetic test this is just supposition. 2. Contortionists are very strong. They have strong …

Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers age, genetics, stature, and adherence to rigorous physical training routines.

acefree contortion tensor is symmetric in 1st and 3rd indices. Also from eqn.(10), its antisym tric in 2nd and 3rd indices. Any tensor which has such symmetry properties, has all its components vani

Since this study, the troupe has altered its training regimen and other exercises to minimize these types of injuries. The participants with limbus fractures described the initial onset of back pain …