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 ...

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 ...

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 ...