Narrator: Aleksei is a contortionist for the traveling circus company Cirque du Soleil ... Aleksei grew up in Tula, Russia, and has been practicing contortionism since he was just 4 years old.

at UniverSoul Circus, which is based in Atlanta. By age 15, she was training to become a contortionist. Lam trained for about 10 years before health issues caused her to switch and she became an ...

Circus staff in Yekaterinburg, Russia, now no longer have to guess whether their feisty elephants Karla and Ranni are happy in their home because they just proved that they are definitely not.

Russian prosecutors have launched an investigation after a monkey wearing a Nazi uniform performed at a state circus. The show also featured goats wrapped in Nazi flags with swastikas, according ...

Born into a circus family, her mother was a three-time Moscow junior pairs champion and her father was a graduate of the Russian School ... that incorporates cirque, contortion and acrobatics.