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  2. Backbend - Wikipedia

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    Contortionist doing a backbend. A backbend is a gymnastics, contortion, dance and ice skating move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. . Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles, obliques, and legs are used to steady the performer while curving bac

  3. Contortion - Wikipedia

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    Contortion acts often accompany acrobatics, circus acts, street performers and other live performing arts. Contortion acts are typically performed in front of a live audience. An act will showcase one or more artists performing a choreographed set of moves or poses, often to music, which require extreme flexibility. The physical flexibility ...

  4. Marinelli bend - Wikipedia

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    This is a Marinelli bend in which the contortionist performs a Marinelli position with another contortionist doing a handstand on their top so that the former is holding the weight of two persons only by their mouth. This is considered to be an extremely difficult contortion act, and is exclusively performed by Mongolian or sometimes Chinese ...

  5. Sofie Dossi - Wikipedia

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    Sofie Clarice Dossi (born June 21, 2001) is an American contortionist, aerialist, YouTuber, dancer, singer, and internet personality.In 2016, she rose to fame on the eleventh season of America's Got Talent.

  6. James Chance and the Contortions - Wikipedia

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    A music video for the single was directed, filmed and animated by 19 year old Dylan Greenberg and is considered the first Contortions music video to make significant use of dramatic digital effects, such as Chance's face being manipulated to appear as if it were melting. [4]

  7. Drum major backbend - Wikipedia

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    The drum major of the Ohio State University performs a backbend in 2016. Folklorist Danille Lindquist has described the drum major backbend, and the audience reaction that accompanies it in the form of cheering and applause, as part of a series of rituals associated with college football designed to seek and elicit popular consent for the staging of the athletic contest that follows.

  8. Alexey Goloborodko - Wikipedia

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    The music was a recorded version of Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega. Again there was an ecstatic response from the audience, and again he won the round. In the third round Alexey performed Obsession, his trademark contortion act using two folding chairs. The audience loved it, the judges apparently did not, and the eventual ...

  9. Liberty Barros - Wikipedia

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    At the age of 10, Liberty Barros discovered her extreme flexibility whilst attempting to replicate a dance move from Rihanna in her music video Umbrella.Later, she has become worldwide famous for her extreme flexibility, and has appeared on Britain's Got Talent, Got Talent España, America's Got Talent and Supertalent, earning her a Golden Buzzer, as well as running a popular YouTube channel ...