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 ...

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 ...

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.

>> 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 ...