Circus Immersion: Contortion or the Human Body in All Its Simplicity
Flexibility, or a lack of it, finds its way in each and everyone’s life. Daily reminders come when one bends…
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Contortion
An Interview with World Acrobatics Society Member Panni Speirs
Panni Speirs is a contortion master coach, jazz musician, and motivational speaker who also holds the Guinness World Book of…
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Mapping Contortion in Japan– Part Three: Cultural Heritage & The Lion Dance
Following up with part one of my series, Mapping Contortion in Japan, I continue exploring the history of contortion and body…
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Mapping Contortion in Japan — Part Two, The Future
Having explored early traces of contortionism throughout Japan’s entertainment history in Part One of this series, I will now discuss…
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Mapping Contortion in Japan– Part One, A History
I recently published my anthropological research study The Art of Contortionism: An Introduction to and Analysis of Chinese Contortionism in…
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