I had also seen videos of a Congolese contortionist called Snake.
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No matter that getting through a doorway might take a contortionist.
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Because all haute couture should be shown on computer-generated contortionist models!
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We're willing to bet Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old professional contortionist from Brooklyn, can.
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The American people were treated today to another example of the congressional Republicans' contortionist act.
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Just kidding, Jeff Goldblum went on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, and following on from Jack Whitehall talking about being compared to a contortionist by Prince Charles, Goldblum told the audience about his wife, who is a former Olympic gymnast and a professional contortionist.
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There are comedians, hula hoopers and a contortionist who bends his body in extremely worrying ways.
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She is zaftig, muscular, and irrepressible — a contortionist performance artist whose only audience is the viewer.
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After all, the guy's a master contortionist, who was even scouted by Madonna for her dance crew.
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You don't have to be a circus freak contortionist to sleep on a plane thanks to Woollip.
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The most skilled contortionist in the industry may be Philip Morris International, the world's biggest tobacco firm.
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His extreme limberness, which rivals that of a professional contortionist, has provoked grumbles about unfair anatomical advantage.
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The Met hired real circus performers for the production, including sword swallowers, a fire-breather, and a contortionist.
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It's been five years since the release of his last record, the contortionist-jazz, dark-comedy You're Dead!
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The inherent paradox of renouncing a candidate you also provisionally support was raised Tuesday to near contortionist levels.
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He went on to call contortionist Marina Mazepa "boring" and told her he "hated the music" she played.
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Schieler is naturally flexible, she told Cosmo, and has been practicing as a contortionist since she was a kid.
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As I was leaving, I asked Jonathan Nosan, a contortionist, whether his nine-year-old beagle Clover enjoyed the performance.
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Whether it's a professional contortionist, a cranberry farmer, or an etiquette teacher, you can make a career out of anything.
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The guests — and their pretenders — in this premiere include America's fastest texter, Taylor Swift's high school sweetheart and a contortionist.
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"Your spin is going to be the envy of every Las Vegas contortionist," Bishop said to Democrats on the committee.
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I liked CONTORTIONIST because I had the clue (one who is bent out of shape) in mind for a while.
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Strzok claims scrutiny of anti-Trump texts 'another victory notch in Putin's belt' Hannity: 'Verbal contortionist' Strzok echoes Bill Clinton Rep.
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The Gaza that you didn't know The current world record was set by British contortionist Leilani Franco on July 21, 2014.
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Still, it does establish that our iconic child ghost-villain Samara (contortionist Bonnie Morgan) is still stringy-haired, waterlogged, and evil.
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Mr. Eguino, 29, the son of a contortionist mother and a father who was a trapeze artist, said he was heartbroken.
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Played by real-life contortionist Troy James, the clown-like critter is stomach-churning to watch as he moves around the set.
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And contortionist Sofie Dossi will once again go head-to-head with fellow AGT 2016 competitors and knife throwers, the Deadly Games.
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It's mesmerizing and sort of quaint and has absolutely nothing to do with Rydelek's day job as a full-time body contortionist.
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This being the '70s, Ronda Shear's contortionist act is of course just fodder for a barrage of terrible sexist jokes from the judges.
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Maud and Gus both met while working within the sideshow circuit, with Gus working as a tattooed man and Maud as a contortionist.
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And then there's Olga Karmansky, a rhythmic gymnast turned professional contortionist whose body bends, moves, and balances in ways best described as jaw-dropping.
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In the show, young lovers carouse, deceive each other and give into seduction amid sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater and a contortionist.
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Self-taught contortionist Sofie Dossi had already shot a bow and arrow with her feet on America's Got Talent, which is pretty hard to top.
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A high point of the evening was the appearance of Miss Ekaterina, a contortionist and exotic dancer exuding erotic danger, who snaked through the audience.
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A nearly nude woman with a giant bouffant and flower-adorned underwear performed a sultry dance with pink wings, while a contortionist spouted French obscenities.
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And when he sends the alien — a 6-foot-5 contortionist — storming down the halls on set after you, it does get your heart racing.
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While some Americans felt embarrassed by this contortionist comic, the French embraced Mr. Lewis's humor as both an abstract art and social satire of American life.
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A troupe of nonsinging performers will help create this ambience: a cast ranging from 3-foot-10 to 7-foot-1, including sword-swallowers and a contortionist.
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" Joining them will be the contortionist Amazing Amy as well as John Reynolds, who appears in the recently begun second season of the standout television show "Search Party.
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Whether you moonlight as a contortionist or can barely touch your toes, you'll be able to make it through the class Is stretching a part of your fitness routine?
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Ettore Messina, one of the Spurs' assistant coaches, merely cracked a smile at the sight of Ginobili the contortionist still making something out of nothing after all these years.
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I don't think we've ever had a bad sex life—I mean, he's a contortionist and I'm a yoga teacher; how bad is sex ever really going to be?
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Two wiry men — Khalil Williams and Xavier D, who excel in the contortionist street-dance style called bone-breaking — twist their arms behind their backs, reaching for each other's hands.
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The style in which he specializes, New Way vogue, is fast and contortionist, while the style of the '80s, now called Old Way, is more toned down, if still acrobatic.
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Aptly called "The Ninja" for her ability to inflict out-of-nowhere pain on the opposition from all manner of contortionist positions, Radwanska's spectacular, poker-faced shotmaking will be missed.
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Those red pimples that seem to pop up on your back and shoulders like clockwork come summertime suck, and unless you're a skilled contortionist, they're impossible to cover up with concealer.
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In Buick's "The Big Day" ad, actress Emily Ratajkowski makes a similar contortionist move to catch a wedding bouquet, with Beckham on hand to make an official ruling on the play.
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After busting through an enclosure, the nimble contortionist appears to have quietly crossed the floor, slithered through a narrow drain hole about six inches in diameter and jumped into the sea.
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A young contortionist shoots a bow and arrow with her feet, a quintet drinks a lot of milk, a man dresses like an alien and a dog jumps on some basketballs.
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What contortionist of logic came up with the proposal that alienating 75 percent of one's constituents, and declaring half to not deserve control over their bodies, can strengthen a party's numbers?
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Along the way, she meets a host of woodland creatures whose natural abilities lend themselves easily to the talents of the cast, like acrobatic frogs, dancing birds and a contortionist earthworm.
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Downhearted and scared, Tairo takes to the road in search of Mr. Robin while Wendy, the circus's contortionist, seeks a variety of mild occult solutions to Tairo's seeming streak of bad luck.
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They put out early releases by club ambience master Huerco S. and pop contortionist Autre Ne Veut, meanwhile developing their production chops together as synth-pop duo Games (later Ford & Lopatin) and separately.
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In one of the black-and-white images Beckham posted to Instagram over the weekend, she's striking a pose with one leg up that makes her look like an extremely chic contortionist flamingo.
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I had to learn more about how he ended up with such disparate passions—and found a hungry market for both—and so I reached out to the body contortionist-slash-global fruit explorer.
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Neither had Leo Mendez, 27, a native of Brooklyn and a contortionist who is known as Leo the Human Gumby for what he calls his "bonebreaker" style — dislocating his shoulders and pretzeling his limbs.
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On a Sunday in January, about 350 guests celebrated the bar's 25th anniversary at a party that included appearances from a contortionist, Times Square's Naked Cowboy and a performance from the rapper Justina Valentine.
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The French photographer is no stranger to the sometimes unfathomable limits of muscle, skin, and skeleton; the artist himself is a professional contortionist, and often presents his nimble frame in unearthly shapes, in Wonderland Creatures.
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The Met has hired a 12-member ensemble that includes sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater, a contortionist and a bearded lady to help make this setting seem a place where disbelief can be suspended.
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For side sleepers, "I think I slept on my neck wrong" is a very real thing that could be causing neck pain in the morning, but not in the awkward, twisted, contortionist way that everyone pictures.
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His contortionist slide — popping up early and dead legging his way around Franco's glove — was not the type of derring-do that would be expected from someone who had stolen just one base since 1033 entering Tuesday.
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As part of Peak Performances, Boitel, a contortionist and aerialist, presents the United States premiere of her philosophical "When Angels Fall," which looks at the state of the environment using a blend of circus, dance and theater.
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In a new body of work exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery, Not Quite Human, "She" takes on the role of a contortionist, someone whose movements are non-normative, who bends her body into a variety of extreme positions.
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Stepping into the Chairman's role, George Clooney is the very definition of dapper, and his caper cronies (Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, and the contortionist Shaobo Qin) seem to be having a blast.
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From a small trunk bearing a cartoonish face resembling Coney Island's iconic grinning mascot, out crawl a dozen sideshow performers: sword swallowers, a snake charmer, a strongman, a fire eater, contortionist, bearded lady and a pair of little people.
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In "Circus 1903," the latest extravaganza from the producers of "The Illusionists," there are a wily ringmaster, a dashing juggler, a glamorous contortionist and a pair of Italian acrobats who fling each other around like so many hacky sacks.
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There's the contortionist who can worm his way around ladders and the guys who know everything about explosives — and, of course, there's Danny Ocean, whose main superpower is basically convincing people to do what he wants them to do.
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The two are ably assisted by Maria Sten and Brandon Scott as Jill and Tom, the couple at the story's center, and by a terrifying demonic creation named Pretzel Jack, a contortionist clown drawn from Jill's dreams and/or nightmares.
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Other fan favorites who performed on the premiere were: sword swallower Alexandr Magala, dance crew Justice Crew, stand-up comedian Vicki Barbolak, mentalist duo The Clairvoyants, contortionist Sofie Dossi, dog act Sara and Hero, acrobat Uzeyer Novruzov, and singer Bianca Ryan.
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PEOPLE exclusively announced the first slate of Champions contestants, including Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts as well as contortionist Sofie Dossi, who will once again go head-to-head with fellow season 11 competitors and knife throwers, the Deadly Games.
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But for a change, there were also plenty of gaffes that once-a-month hackers could relate to: whiffed returns, shots off the frames and contortionist stances that made even the balletic Federer look as if he was learning to dance.
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She's released an EP of remixes and reworks of "Arisen My Senses," aided by three of most exciting synthesists and percussion contorters working right now: the techno dramatist Kelly Lee Owens, the prismatic footwork contortionist Jlin, and Scottish electro-abstractor Lanark Artefax.
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Dick Zigun—the sixty-four-year-old tattooed impresario of the nonprofit that administers the bar and the iconic circus sideshow next door (a live ten-act spectacle featuring, among other oddities, a contortionist, a sword swallower, and a snake charmer)—was devastated.
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The Senate GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is being sold as a permanent fix to our tax code, but because of the gamesmanship and contortionist gimmicks the bill includes, it is setting us up for yet another era of tax extenders.
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There's gnarled 10-minute jams full of contortionist rhythmic interplay ("Atlantic Black"), nauseous two-stepping grooves ("Flipped OUT"), and a track described on by one the players on a trippy interlude as a "gust of energy coming down this mountain that I feel on my back kinda vibe" ("Butterss's").
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This bit of linguistic contortionist is just the latest ridiculous twist in a long-running defamation suit which began when Musk suffered the public humiliation of building a non-viable and unasked-for miniature submarine to rescue a children's soccer team that had become trapped in a cave in Thailand last summer.
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In recent months, her parties have played host to some big guests from around the country and the world—electro-contortionist DJ Stingray stopped by last year, and Munich legend DJ Hell stops by the next party on January 18—but she also brings in the best from in and around the local scene.
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In order to believe these bizarre explanations from this verbal contortionist, you would literally have to suspend all sense of fact and fiction and, of course, Peter Strzok, well, he does think that the smelly, irredeemable, deplorable Trump supporters of Walmart, the hillbillies like us that believe in god and guns and bibles and religion, we don&apost measure up.
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Rounding out the cast from other franchises are singer Angelina Jordan (Norway), dance trio Quick Style (Norway), singer Jack Vidgen (Australia), strongman Eddie Williams (Australia), comedian JJ Pantano (Australia), magician Dania Diaz (Spain), hand to hand duo Duo Destiny (Poland), dancer Emil Rengle (Romania), shadow dance group Junior Creative (Myanmar), singer Marcelilot Pomoy (Pilipinas), danger act Miki Dark (Holland) harmonicist/beat boxer Moses Concas (Italy) and contortionist Strauss Serpent (Africa).
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Bria Roberts is an American entertainer. She is an actress and contortionist. She lives in Los Angeles, California. She was first seen portraying Betty on SpikeTV's 1000 Ways To Die and then as a contortionist on TruTV's Guinness World Records Unleashed.
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist is an 1894 short film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. The film, which runs 12.5 seconds, consists of a contortionist act performed by Luis Martinetti of the Martinetti Brothers trapeze act. Martinetti wears tiger-striped tights and performs contortionist poses on a pair of trapeze rings. The film was shot on October 11, 1894 at the Edison Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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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 contortionists. The bend normally lasts for 5–6 seconds from the moment the Marinelli bend contortionist releases their hands from the floor.
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Contortionist performing Contortionist Maria Efremkina performing in 2010. Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers called contortionists showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility. 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.
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Her most popular performance is her "Snake Dance".Contortionist – Irina Kazakova. YouTube (February 22, 2006). Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
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Although most of the acts are singers and dancers, there was a fakir, some contortionist, comedians and other variety acts.
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Emilie Goldblum (née Livingston, born January 4, 1983) is a Canadian dancer, aerialist and contortionist, and retired Olympic rhythmic gymnast.
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Athuman's father, Said Ali Athuman Mbaga, known as Billy, is a Kenyan contortionist and acrobat, who lives in Gran Canaria.
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This is a Marinelli bend in which the contortionist performs a Marinelli position on specially built equipment that can slowly spin 360 degrees.
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For the shot in which Tooms slides through a chimney, the producers hired a contortionist who could squeeze through small spaces. They filmed the shot with the camera standing below the contortionist. The chimney, which was "more like a belt than a pipe", was made to look much narrower than it actually was. Using computer-generated imagery, they were able to produce and elongate shots of the contortionist's fingers.
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The video begins with Welch lying next to a crystal skull. Several scenes showing a masked and shirtless contortionist sitting on a chair follow and soon after he starts to dance and takes his mask off. The video then moves into a church where a choir consisting of kids (The Trinity Boys Choir) starts singing the song. Welch is then seen atop of a building as the contortionist takes a voodoo doll in his hands.
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Jinny Jessica Jacinto (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian contortionist, known for her work with the Cirque du Soleil, her television appearances and her role in the film Satie and Suzanne.
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Exoplanet is the debut studio album by progressive metal band The Contortionist, released through Good Fight Entertainment on August 31, 2010. A remastered edition of the album was released on January 22, 2016.
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Shapeshifter is the debut extended play by progressive metal band The Contortionist. This EP as well as Sporadic Movements are their only recordings to have a more traditional deathcore sound, before switching to technical death metal and progressive metal in their later work. This is the only album by The Contortionist to feature vocalist Jake Morris who was later replaced by Dave Hoffman. The interlude in Non-Manual Dexterity was later re-worked into Eyes: Closed, itself entirely reworked into Flourish.
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He was replaced by Cleveland native Eric Emery. In the summer of 2015, it was announced that Skyharbor would be making their North American debut on TesseracT's 'Polaris' tour, alongside The Contortionist and ERRA. The band premiered 'Out Of Time', the lead single off the as-yet untitled third album, on 27 August 2015. This was followed by the release of the video single 'Blind Side', featuring live performance and travel footage from their North America tour with TesseracT and The Contortionist.
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The Contortionist formed in 2007 under the name At the Hands of Machines with vocalist Jake Morris, guitarists Roby Baca and Cameron Maynard, bassist Christopher Tilley, and drummer Joey Baca. The band's first release, the EP Sporadic Movements, was released later that year. At the Hands of Machines changed their name to The Contortionist following the EP's release and the same line-up recorded the EP Shapeshifter, which was released in September 2008. These two EPs featured a deathcore sound in contrast to the band's later works.
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In 2018, Morgan guest starred as a contortionist and henchwoman named Colette in the Netflix Original Series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. She returned to the role for the series' third and final season the following year.
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Intrinsic is the second studio album by progressive metal band The Contortionist, released through E1/Good Fight Music on July 17, 2012. This is the band's last release with vocalist/keyboardist Jonathan Carpenter and bassist Christopher Tilley.
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In 2011, the Summer Slaughter Tour offered their fans the opportunity to vote on who would open the tour. The choices for 2011 were Dawn of Ashes, Revocation, Neuraxis, Conducting From The Grave, The Contortionist, Within The Ruins, Volumes, Augury, 7 Horns 7 Eyes, Rings of Saturn, and Struc/tures. Within the Ruins ultimately received the most votes and thus won the opening spot for the tour. That same year Conducting From The Grave, The Contortionist, Rings of Saturn, Volumes, and Struc/tures all toured together on what was billed as the Slaughter Survivors Tour.
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Bree Robertson (born 6 July 1982 in Gosford, New South Wales, Australia) is an actress, fashion model and contortionist who represented Australia in rhythmic gymnastics and was one of the country's top elite international gymnasts. Robertson, often referred to as Australia's leading contortionist, performs around the world at high-profile events. Bree Robertson appeared on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 11 in 2008 teaching the model contestants about extreme posing. In 2009 Bree had a leading role in the feature film thriller Fragment playing the role of Victoria.
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Sporadic Movements is the first EP released by The Contortionist, who were known as "At the Hands of Machines" at the time. The EP has a deathcore sound instead of the progressive metal influenced- sound heard on later releases.
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Christopher Alfred Goode, better known as Chris Cross, is an English magician, escapologist and former contortionist. He has performed Worldwide and appeared on British television. He was born in 1989 at The Newcastle General Hospital in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
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Fallujah is an American death metal band from San Francisco, California, founded in 2007. Fallujah has toured with acts such as The Black Dahlia Murder, Carnifex, Thy Art is Murder, Dying Fetus, Between the Buried and Me, and The Contortionist.
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Christine started her professional career as a dancer/contortionist in the early days of Australian television in Adelaide"Adelaide Tonight" South Australian variety show from the studios of NWS 9 in Adelaide and went on to tour internationally as a featured cabaret artist.
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The first episode aired on March 24, 2010, and included a contortionist, a blind man who uses echolocation, microscopic art by Willard Wigan, the fish Macropinna microstoma, a lyrebird, a man who roller skated on a roller coaster, and several other subjects.
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Shortly before embarking on the "Frak the Gods" tour in September 2011 with Periphery, Textures and The Contortionist, vocalist Travis Richter abruptly quit the band. The Human Abstract quickly replaced him with Ryan Devlin of the progressive metal band Corelia as a temporary touring member.
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In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Rag Doll works as a contortionist freak show in the Haly's Circus.Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons #1 (June 2011). DC Comics. During the attack of the Amazons, Rag Doll is rescued by Resistance member Vertigo.
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Ching Lau Lauro (flourished 1827–1839) used a Chinese stage name to represent his stage image as a contortionist in Chinese costume. He was probably the first magician to dress in Chinese costume on stage.During, Simon (2004). Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic.
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Raphaëlle Boitel (born 1984) is a French circus performer, contortionist, acrobat, actress, theatre director, and choreographer. She started as a contortionist street performer as a child, then appeared in internationally touring works by James Thiérrée and others, including La Symphonie du Hanneton (The Junebug Symphony). She founded her own company, Cie L'Oublié(e), in 2012, and began to produce and direct as well as perform, creating the internationally touring productions L'Oublié(e) (The Forgotten) and La Chute des Anges (When Angels Fall) among other works. Boitel has also worked as a television and film actress, and as a choreographer for opera, including at La Scala.
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Cobalt Claw usually steals skin to get close to her victim, then she attacks with her 4 long braids, usually by tripping or gagging. If her braids are destroyed, Cobalt Claw uses her contortionist body to unzip extra pockets in her suit that carry extra arms.
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FlexN, also spelled as Flexing, is a style of street dance from Brooklyn, New York that is characterized by rhythmic contortionist movement combined with waving, floor moves, and gliding. Flex dancers, referred to as flexers, often perform shirtless and incorporate hat tricks in their performance for showmanship.
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This contortionist has used a frontbend to fit himself in this small trunk A frontbend is a contortion position where the body is curved forward at the hips and spine. In an extreme frontbend, some contortionists can place the backs of their knees behind their shoulders.
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He was born in 1847 in New York City to the contortionist William H. Cole and wire walker Mary Ann Cooke. In 1884, he established "W.W. Cole’s New Colossal Shows", which survives to this day, as the Cole Bros. Circus. He died on March 10, 1915.
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Dazzler #7-8. Marvel Comics. The Enforcers return with new members Snake Marston, a master contortionist and Hammer Harrison, a boxer who wears steel hammers over his hands. The Enforcers come under the employ of the Kingpin, but were defeated by Spider-Man and the then- reformed Sandman.
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Jacinto was a member of the Cirque du Soleil as one of four 12 to 14-year-old girls working in a contortionist troupe. Jacinto said that to perform as a contortionist "You just lie down on your stomach, bring your legs over your head, lift up your chest and you smile." The four girls won a gold medal at the Festival Mondial Du Cirque De Demain in Paris in 1990. In the dance show Tono, put on by the Ontario-based Red Sky Performance at the Coups de théâtre festival, reviewer Kathryn Greenaway described her opening performance, which finished with Jacinto turning to "reveal a slender, elegant horse skull delicately balanced on her forearm" as "breathtaking".
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Lilia Stepanova (born 29 July 1987) is a contortionist. She was born in Chişinău, Moldova, to parents who were also contortionists. She started training with her mother at the age of five. , Stepanova is living in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she is known for performing at many NBA halftime shows.
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Retrieved on 2008-08-30 PlayStation Magazine described Voldo as "nothing if not the master of freakiness."PSM Staff (December 2003) "Soulcalibur II" PlayStation: The Official Magazine. Game Vortex reviewer Robert Perkins described him as "a warrior that can best be described as martial artist/contortionist meets Edward Scissorhands."Perkins, Robert.
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The first single from the album "Reaching Home" was released alongside a music video. In September 2011, Textures embarked on the Frak The Gods Tour, along with Periphery, The Contortionist and The Human Abstract in support of their album Dualism. This was Textures' first tour of the United States and Canada.
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Clairvoyant is the fourth album by American progressive metal band The Contortionist, released on 15 September 2017 through eOne Music and Good Fight Music. It has been described as somewhat of a departure from their previous sound, with little to no screamed vocals and can be considered less heavy than their previous albums.
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Qin Shaobo () (b. 1982 in Guangxi) is a Chinese actor, acrobat and contortionist. His first performance took place when he was 11 years old which resulted in him wanting to make acting a career. Shaobo's motion picture debut was in 2001, playing The Amazing Yen, Danny Ocean's "grease man", in the remake of Ocean's Eleven.
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Daniel Browning Smith, also known as The Rubberboy (born May 8, 1979), is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history, owning a total of seven Guinness World Records. Smith owes his flexibility to the genetic condition hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
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This is a Marinelli bend in which the contortionist performs a Marinelli position with two other contortionists on their top so that the one in Marinelli bend is holding the weight of three persons only by their mouth. From all available documented records only one trio of contortionists have managed to do achieve it.
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George H. Diamond was born in Buffalo, New York in 1862 to John and Catherine Diamond. He began performing in variety shows in early 1888. In 1889 he was advertised as a famous contortionist. Beginning around 1890 Diamond toured the nation as a singer of popular tin pan alley songs on the vaudeville circuit.
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Somerby also headed his own bills as a professional lecturer; in 1877, there is a record of his operating his own Fair, which included himself as "graphic lecturer" (probably with a panorama), O-car Shaffer, a "facial contortionist," Shaffer's wife the singer Louise Shaffer, and a player of the "musical glasses" (probably a sort of glass harmonica).
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Betty, Bimbo and Koko are the owners of a traveling medicine show. They are selling "Jippo", an all-purpose health tonic. Koko's contortionist display doesn't convince the local townsfolk to open their wallets, but Betty gets the whole town eager to buy their product. Then Betty and Koko give out bottles while little men fill them with something.
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Ionesco was born to Romanian immigrants living in Paris. According to Ionesco's daughter, Ionesco was the product of father-daughter incest. From the age of 4 to 15 her parents sent her to Romania where she was raised by her family who were circus performers. From the ages of 15 to 22 she performed as a contortionist.
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Marjorie Chipperfield performed as Equestrienne, contortionist and equilibrist. Marjorie Suzanne Phyllis, the younger daughter of Richard Chipperfield was born 12 December 1916. She was the fifth generation of the famous family, sister of Dick, Maude, Jimmy and John. In 1931 she did a bending and balancing act, climbing in and out of the narrow rungs of a ladder.
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The Scarecrow is a highly adept contortionist—extremely flexible and agile due to heavy training. He is double-jointed and can fit his body through any aperture at least one foot wide. He is therefore able to escape from conventional locks and chains, and to perform various acrobatic stunts. He is also a master at training birds.
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Arnardo was born in Sarpsborg, the son of lumberjack Einar Andersen and his wife Elna. He was interested in the entertainment industry from an early age, and escaped with Cirkus Empress as a teenager. Here he worked as a contortionist, illusionist and acrobat. In 1927, he took the stage name "Arnardo", under which he was invariably known since.
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The Contortionist is an American progressive metal band from Indianapolis, Indiana. Formed in 2007, the band consists of guitarists Robby Baca and Cameron Maynard, drummer Joey Baca, vocalist Mike Lessard, bassist Jordan Eberhardt, and keyboardist Eric Guenther. They have released four studio albums and three EPs. The band signed with E1 and Good Fight Music in early 2010.
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Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Luigi is the eighth of eleven children of immigrant Italian parents, Nicola and Antoinette (Savoia) Faccuito. His father died when Luigi was five. His older brother Tony taught him to sing, dance, and use contortionist skills so he could enter local talent contests to win prize money for the family. He was a natural performer who won many events.
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In 1923, Lou Jacobs came to the U. S. on a steamship. His older brother Karl, had already made it to the U. S. and worked in the Keith Orpheum Theater as a contortionist. He saved up $150.00 to pay for his brother's boat fare. When Jacobs arrived in New York, he had only two dollars and could not speak English.
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The ninth edition began in Meghalaya, on November 2-3. It returned to Pune from December 7-9. Both editions took place in the same venues: Wenfield, The Festive Hills, Meghalaya and Mahalakshmi Lawns, Nagar Road, Pune. Headliners included Joe Satriani, God Is An Astronaut, The Contortionist, Nightmares on Wax, Switchfoot, Poets of The Fall, Salim-Sulaiman, and Shubha Mudgal.
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Patterson (during the 1954–1955 season), Shinbone Alley (in 1957), and the short-lived Jolly's Progress (in 1959). In 1964, Kitt helped open the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California. In the late 1960s, Batman featured Kitt as Catwoman after Julie Newmar had left the show in 1967. She appeared in a 1967 Mission: Impossible episode, "The Traitor," as a contortionist.
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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 backwards. Modern yoga includes some backbending asanas. Backbending can be acquired from intense training or genetics.
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As tradition dictates that he cannot pass his art onto a girl, he tries to abandon her, but she stubbornly stays with him. He later calls her "doggie" and has her refer to him as "boss". He then begins to train her to be a flexible contortionist street performer. While looking at his masks, she accidentally sets his humble residence on fire.
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Adele enjoyed a long and varied entertainment career. As a teenager she performed in the circus as an acrobat on the high wire, and as a contortionist. At the age of 19 she began a three-year stint entertaining US troops in Korea and Japan. In 1971 she was part of the New South Wales Concert Party, entertaining Australian troops in Vietnam.
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This EP was similarly well received. In 2016, Binary Code independently released "Moonsblood", and it received favorable acclaim. The album was recorded by Eyal Levi (guitarist for Dååth and recording engineer for the Black Dahlia Murder and The Contortionist) at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida. They toured the album with Norwegian progressive metal band Leprous in the United States and Canada.
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It is left uncertain if Colette survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement. In the TV series, Colette is portrayed by real-life contortionist Bonnie Morgan. She, Hugo and Kevin follow Olaf like in the book. However, they immediately wise up to his carelessness when he has them stay outside their camp during the events of "The Slippery Slope Pt. 1".
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Series 4 was held on 18 November 2012. In this series, there will be four judges instead of three. Series regular judges Jerry Huang, Gao Xiaosong, Annie Yi and new judges Dou Wentao, Xu Jinglei, Leon Lai and Yang Wei will be featured in the audition process. Contortionist, Wang Jungru beat out yo-yo specialist, Duan Zhimin in this series.
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Scandals of 1920 was staged at the Globe Theatre (Lunt- Fontanne Theatre) and was a revue in two acts, with eighteen scenes. La Sylphe provided a contortionist routine in the first half of the show. Other noteworthy players were Pennington, White, Lou Holtz, and Lester Allen. Music for the summer 1920 presentation was by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Arthur Jackson.
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Jones started his career in the television and movie industry as a 1980s ad character, "Mac Tonight". He worked as a contortionist, saying, "You'd be surprised how many times that comes into play in commercials. They'll want somebody to hold a box of Tide funny or something. I once squished into a box for a commercial for relaxed fit jeans".
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They also announced that they be touring from July–August in support of the album, with Evan Brewer supporting them on the tour. As well as this, it was announced that Robby Baca of The Contortionist would be filling on guitars in place of AJ Harvey and Mike Abdow, who left the band shortly after the completion of Level 3. On June 21, 2013, Mike Lessard announced that he would now be the full-time vocalist for The Contortionist and that Last Chance To Reason would become a side project, as the band had come to a standstill after the completion of Level 3. He stated that discussions had already begun between him and Robby Baca regarding The Contortionist's third album and that he would be flying back to Indianapolis after Last Chance To Reason's North American tour to begin writing the album.
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Mudville's live band since 2005 has consisted of John Walter Bollinger on drums and Brian Charette on keyboards and guitar. Mudville is also known for collaborations with artists of many disciplines, doing experimental projects with up-and-coming New York videographers and clothing designers and also performing with a contortionist. In 2008, they won Best Dance/Electronica Song at the Independent Music Awards with their song "Wicked".
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He puts a needle in the doll and Welch falls from the building. She later falls in the church where she's being caught and held by the choir. Welch then ends up in the arms of her love interest, played by actor Torstein Bjorklund. Shots of Welch being chased by the contortionist in a town are interspersed amongst the other elements of the video.
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One objection si that it resembles too keenly a previous release by the same maker called Springtime. In both creations weather breezes are denoted through leaping and contortionist insects, plants, and in a similar manner. Withal, however, it has its snickers. Seizing upon caterpillars and butterflies to express the freedom of musical summer carries its own laughs, which in essence is the spirit of the present cartoon.
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Davis toured with Talent winners Diversity in Spring 2010. The tour was named "Bringing a Toy Story to Life" Plus Many Special Guest's, which specialises in 'bringing toys to life'. The tour also features Talent semi – finalists Sugar Free, rap artist Aggro Santos, Contortionist Delia Du Sol, and Beatboxer Petebox. He performed at the Christmas lights switch on in St Helens, Merseyside on 14 November.
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Gassion was born on 10 May, 1881 in Falaise, Calvados to a poor family. His father, Victor Alphonse Gassion, was a horseman in the circus, and his mother, Louise Léontine Deschamps, was the madam of a brothel in Bernay, Normandy. He had seven sisters, two of whom died at a young age. He began his career in the circus with the 'Ciotti' circus, and became a contortionist.
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Claxton was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father, Overton (O.C.) Claxton, was a drummer who played in W. C. Handy's band. When young, Leon joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a water boy for the elephants, and toured the U.S.. By the age of 16, he appeared in shows as a contortionist, and in the 1920s featured in vaudeville shows in Chicago.
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A girl who was kidnapped on her way to her grandfather's farm by a traveling circus. Then later mind-controlled by a guardian known as "The Eye", which erased of all memory of her previous life. To keep the image of the circus, Finn became the contortionist of the troupe. The Defenders found out about the circus and broke the Eye's control over her and the troupe.
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Nothing is known of Fawkes before early 1722 when an advertisement appeared announcing that his son would give a performance of tumbling at Southwark Fair, but it is safe to suppose that he was well-established as a performer in London by this time, as in March 1722 he took out an advertisement in which he mentioned his previous performances for George II, in which he demonstrated: The 12-year-old boy was Fawkes' own son who had been the tumbler at Southwark earlier in the year and became a regular fixture of Fawkes' show as a "Posture Master" or contortionist. In later announcements Fawkes' bragged that his son was the finest Posture Master in Europe. Because of the popularity of the contortionist act he took on another younger boy to perform a similar act but "all different from what his own boy performs".
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Yet, he landed a part in a Belgian acrobatic act that paid $25.00 a week. After almost two years of performing in fairs, outdoor exhibits, and winter vaudeville, Jacobs teamed up with Michael Morris, a British contortionist in late 1924. They did a comedy act that satirized the trapeze acts, a broomstick was their “trapeze.” Fortunately for Jacobs, Morris had a contract with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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On 10 July 2015 Tesseract's official Facebook page released a video teaser for the new album titled Polaris. They also released album art and set a release date for 18 September 2015. A full album stream was uploaded to YouTube by Kscope Music on 15 September 2015. In November 2015, the band toured in support of the new album with opening bands including The Contortionist, ERRA, and Skyharbor.
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It includes working with electric drill (Engineering), filming a zebra (Exploring), washing a pig (Farming) and studying the diplodocus in the Natural History Museum (Science). Other pictures are Sacred Love (a family), Art, Astronomy, Letters, Mining, Commerce (a Covent Garden porter), Music (a shell and a flute), and Theatre (a contortionist). The Pleasures of Life in the east vestibule (1929) shows Man's recreations. The subjects are Contemplation, Conversation, Football, Hunting, Cricket.
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Frank Oakley, also known as Slivers (1871–1916) was the most popular circus clown of his generation. Born in Sweden, both of Oakley's parents were concert singers. At the age of 14 he began to practice as a contortionist and at 16 he joined his first circus. His parents convinced him to enroll at the University of Michigan but two years later Oakley was back under the big top.
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Aleksei I. Goloborodko (, pronounced: Al-ix-EY Ga-la-ba-RROJ-ka, born December 1994) is a contortionist who has been described by many as the most flexible human on the planet. He was born in Tula, Russia. In addition to contortion, he has trained in classical and modern dance and Chinese martial arts. He has performed in a variety of arts festivals and competitions, television programs, circuses, and shows.
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A glamorous contortionist disappears into an open torso. Among the featured artistes was Marawa The Amazing, who gracefully climbed a ladder of sabres barefoot, recreating a turn made popular by the female French magician and crocodile-charmer, Koringa, in the 1930s.''Dystopian Wonders' in the archive section of Carnesky's website Following the Roundhouse production, 'Dystopian Wonders' was staged at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield, the Lowry Salford and Chelsea Theatre.
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When Honeywell was young she went to dance school and gymnastics classes. She completed her education at Ordsall Hall School. At 18, she got her first job, working in Malta as a contortionist for three months, having trained with an acrobatic troupe the Great Kovaks in Doncaster. At 19, she moved to London to play the part of a kitten in Cats, and from musical theatre moved into television.
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Zartan is a master of make-up and disguise. Very little is known of his background, but he is suspected to have received European military academy training at St. Cyr. Zartan can alter his skin color at will to blend in with his environment, and is a practitioner of several mystic martial arts. He is also a ventriloquist, a polyglot (speaking over 20 languages and dialects), and an acrobatic- contortionist.
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Two performers with EDS currently hold world records. Contortionist Daniel Browning Smith has hypermobile EDS and holds the current Guinness World Record for the most flexible man as of 2018, while Gary "Stretch" Turner (shown right), sideshow performer in the Circus Of Horrors, has held the current Guinness World Record for the most elastic skin since 1999, for his ability to stretch the skin on his stomach 6.25 inches.
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Language is the third studio album by progressive metal band the Contortionist. The album was released under eOne/Good Fight Music on September 16, 2014. It is the first studio album to feature Michael Lessard of Last Chance to Reason - who replaced Jonathan Carpenter. The album debuted at #52 on the Billboard 200 chart, as well as #6 on the "Hard Rock" chart and #15 on the "Rock" chart.
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Not too long after Carpenter's arrival, The Contortionist began work on their debut album, Exoplanet. Exoplanet was released on August 31, 2010 through Good Fight Music. The album's sound continued the progressive metal/technical death metal sound heard on Apparition, with lyrics exploring themes such as space and interstellar travel. Several of the album's songs are reworked songs from Apparition, featuring new lyrics written by Carpenter with slightly different musical passages.
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Man standing in a pose close to Durvasasana, in Thomas Dwight's "Anatomy of a Contortionist", Scribner's, 1889 From the 1850s onwards, a culture of physical exercise developed in India to counter the colonial stereotype of supposed "degeneracy" of Indians compared to the British, a belief reinforced by then-current ideas of Lamarckism and eugenics. This culture was taken up from the 1880s to the early 20th century by Indian nationalists such as Tiruka, who taught exercises and unarmed combat techniques under the guise of yoga. Meanwhile, proponents of Indian physical culture like K. V. Iyer consciously combined "hata yoga" with bodybuilding in his Bangalore gymnasium. Singleton notes that poses much like Durvasasana, Ganda Bherundasana and Hanumanasana were found in Thomas Dwight's 1889 article "Anatomy of a Contortionist", while poses close to Warrior Pose, Downward Dog, Utthita Padangusthasana, Supta Virasana and others were described in Niels Bukh's 1924 Danish text Grundgymnastik eller primitiv gymnastik (known in English as Primary Gymnastics).
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He has toured extensively with artists including Plini and David Maxim Micic. In May 2019 he went on a North American tour with Between the Buried and Me and The Contortionist. Johnston has cited musical influences such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Jeff Beck, saying "I sound nothing like those guys, but I’m massively influenced by them". The guitarist released his own signature guitar through Schecter in 2016.
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Born Margaret Florence Stallard, she is the youngest child of Florence and Norman Stallard. Stallard’s mother was quietly determined that her daughter should follow in the footsteps of her own famous cousin, G. H. Elliott, known to Variety Hall as ‘The Chocolate Coloured Coon’, he was Britain’s answer to Al Jolson. From an early age, Stallard took ballet and tap lessons. During the war years, she entertained the troops as a contortionist.
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Leigh Marning (born 8 February 1979 in Taree, New South Wales, Australia) is an ex-rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She now works as a contortionist and freelance circus performer and trainer, specializing in aerials, contortion & hula hoops. Leigh Marning trained at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne, Australia from 2001–2003 and was later accepted into the Cirque du Soleil show KÀ in Las Vegas.
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On 4 September 1914, she married Louis Alphonse Gassion, a circus contortionist. The following year, on December 19, she gave birth to their first child, Édith Giovanna, who would become Édith Piaf. On 31 August 1918, she gave birth to their second child, Herbert. Édith was raised by Annetta's mother, Emma, from 1915 to 1918, when she was sent to Louis Gassion's mother instead because of Annetta and Emma's neglect of her.
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However, the three women hide the body and are able to convince Fuchs to leave. While digging for the treasure, Camero asks the girls about the best sex each has ever had, believing the answer tells her something important about their character. She admits her best sex ever was with a circus contortionist, although she did not even know the contortionist's name. During a water fight, Trixie falls onto something in the sand.
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Camero returns and again fights Hel. After she beats Hel to the ground, Camero assumes she is dead and moves to kill Trixie. As Trixie will not fight back, Camero attempts to rape her, but stops when she sees a tattoo and realizes Trixie was the mysterious contortionist from her past. Before she can kill Trixie, Camero is shot in the back and killed by Deputy Fuchs, who managed to survive the explosion.
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He offered to give free, intensive, one on one training to this boy - Vladimir Gagarin - who in his turn developed into an award-winning contortionist. However, for personal and family reasons, Gagarin left the scene in his teens. Rodin was saddened and disillusioned by this, and disinclined to take on additional boy trainees. When he met Alexey, though, he was won over by the latter's enthusiasm and determination, and changed his mind.
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After touring internationally with other musical groups such as The Contortionist, Hail the Sun, and Polyphia, among others, and appearing on 2017 Vans Warped Tour, the band hinted at recording their eighth studio album in October 2017. The group performed their seventh album, Mothership, in its entirety on The Mothership Tour in December 2017. Dance Gavin Dance embarked on a headlining European and U.K. tour with American metalcore band Veil of Maya in March 2018.
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On April 10, 2012, the second solo album Plains of Oblivion was released through Century Media Records. Guest solos on the album were done by Marty Friedman, Tony MacAlpine and Chris Poland. In summer 2012, Loomis embarked on a North American tour with The Contortionist, Chimp Spanner, and 7 Horns 7 Eyes. On November 17, 2014, Loomis was announced as the new guitarist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, replacing Nick Cordle.
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It was featured in the seventh episode of the second season of the Marvel/Hulu series Runaways. It was also one of the official theme songs for NXT TakeOver: New York. It was also played at the end of the first episode of Emergence as well as at the end of the ninth episode of Netflix’s “Locke & Key.” The song was also used in contortionist Marina Mazepa's quarterfinal performance on America's Got Talent in 2019.
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Dunville was born Thomas Edward Wallen at 32 New Street, Coventry, England on 29 July 1867. He was educated at Bablake School, and worked briefly for Rudge-Whitworth. He took his stage name from the whisky firm Dunville & Co. Having established himself in the northern music halls, Dunville took his act to London in 1890, performing first at the Middlesex Music Hall in Drury Lane. He was billed as an "eccentric comedian and contortionist".
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With Khor's departure, Wilson is the only remaining original member of the band. Khor's replacement was announced in January 2016 as Meniscus guitarist Daniel Oreskovic. In 2016, the band announced their first tour of North America in four years, supporting progressive metal outfit The Contortionist and UK djent band Monuments on a six-week tour from March to May. During this tour, the band recorded and released a live session through Audiotree, featuring four tracks.
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Red Handed Denial are a Canadian progressive metal band from Toronto, Ontario. Though their formation was in 2008, the band did not start touring seriously until 2016. Red Handed Denial have toured the United States and Canada with bands such as Protest the Hero, I Set My Friends On Fire, AURAS, Sea of Treachery, and ACME, and have performed with bands such as Trivium, The Contortionist, Matenrou Opera, I See Stars, Silent Planet, and A Skylit Drive.
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Hypermobility, also known as double-jointedness, describes joints that stretch farther than normal. For example, some hypermobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists, bend their knee joints backwards, put their leg behind the head or perform other contortionist "tricks." It can affect one or more joints throughout the body. Hypermobile joints are common and occur in about 10 to 25% of the population, but in a minority of people, pain and other symptoms are present.
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Ocasio, slip op. at 1, 3–6 (Thomas, J., dissenting). Justice Sonia Sotomayor also wrote a dissenting opinion in which she argued that the majority's opinion was inconsistent with the plain language of the Hobbs Act as well as the Court's prior conspiracy law jurisprudence.Ocasio, slip op. at 1, 11 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting). Although some commentators have stated that the case is consistent with prior precedent,See, e.g., Randall Eliason, Response, The Contortionist Extortionist: Response to United States v.
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Given an eyeball-like helmet by They Who Wield Power that was able to hypnotize others, he would return to try and reclaim the stunt show but was foiled by Ghost Rider. He would return as one of Ghost Rider's most frequent enemies. ; Scarecrow: A contortionist, Ebenezer Laughton decided to use his gifts as a thief. In time, he would turn to murder, eventually being brought into conflict with Ghost Rider and nearly killed from the encounter.
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Klaus Voorhees gained superhuman powers due to the combined mutagenic effects of the venom of a radioactive cobra and an experimental anti-venom. The King Cobra is double-jointed, can dislocate and snap back into place his shoulders and hips at will, and has a phenomenal mastery of his musculature. Most notably, his amazing contortionist powers and slithery body let him break in, and escape from, buildings. He also has the ability to stick to walls or ceilings.
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Criss Angel performed a trick in which he appeared to pull a woman in half with his hands during an outdoor performance and half of her crawled away. The trick involved a woman with sacral agenesis and a contortionist. Magician and historian Ricky Jay has written that a version of this trick was previously performed by another magician. The magician that inspired Criss Angel's trick was Rajah Raboid, who performed this trick with Johnny Eck and his twin brother, Robert, in 1937.
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Lieutenant Macy takes charge of the investigation, assisted by Chan and his overzealous eldest son Lee, who also takes the opportunity to (unsuccessfully) romance Su Toy (Toshia Mori, credited as Shia Jung), the contortionist. On Chan's advice, Macy lets the circus continue on to its next stop, with the trio tagging along. During the train ride, an attempt is made to murder Chan with a poisonous cobra. Then someone tries to break into the circus's safe, but nothing is missing.
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The band's name was derived from Alexis Fire, the world's only lactating contortionist stripper. This caused problems when she discovered that they were using her website name as their band name, and she threatened to sue the band for copyright infringement. However, it was discovered that the moniker was not registered, and no further action took place. The band released its first EP, Math Sheet Demos in 2002, so named because the CD was wrapped in former drummer Jesse Ingelevics' math homework.
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In April 2008, she appeared as a contortionist on the premiere episode of Secret Talents of the Stars and advanced to the semifinals, although the show was cancelled before she could perform again. She made a guest appearance as an ice skater in CSI: NY season 3 episode 12 "Silent Night". Sasha also participated in the 2013 edition of "Tornado Week" on The Weather Channel, helping break the myth that small tornadoes are not as destructive by demonstrating a tight spin.
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His agility far surpasses that of an Olympic-level gymnast, and his bone structure allows him great flexibility. His spine is more flexible than an ordinary human, enabling him to remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist-type feats without causing any damage to his spine. Nightcrawler's balance and bodily coordination are all enhanced to superhuman levels. He has the ability to cling to surfaces through microscopic suction cups located on the pads of his hands and feet.
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Tom Waits reportedly sang about the club in "Pasties and a G-String" from his album, Small Change (1976). In 2012, an author wrote that Mary's Club featured "tattooed contortionist entertainers". Nude dancing at the club began in 1985 after a judge overturned City of Portland ordinances banning it at venues which served alcohol. A lawsuit over pasties and G-strings was brought after Portland annexed land formerly regulated by Multnomah County, which allowed tavern dancers to perform without clothing.
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Following the singles releases, the band debut their album, Heavy Yoke, with the assistance of Solid State Records in the United States and Indie Recordings in Europe. The band was nominated for an Edvardprisen award on June 20, 2019, most specifically for Espevoll and Husvik. The band announced their first tour with The Contortionist in mid-2019. In 2020, the band began releasing singles from their next album, titled Loops of Yesterday, which is set to be released on April 10, 2020.
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Colette is a contortionist who is one of the Caligari Carnival freaks. She considers her trait to be an abnormality rather than an ability. In The Carnivrous Carnival, Esmé swayed her to Count Olaf's side by giving her a large robe that would allow her to contort her body into any shape she wanted without people being aware. In The Slippery Slope, Colette wondered why the White-Faced Women disliked their paleness since they used makeup and powder in front of her.
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In 2014, Norman would direct two music videos for Indiana-based progressive metal band The Contortionist. The first video, "Language I: Intuition" debuted on August 26, 2014 on Alternative Press. The video received positive reviews, with the website Metal Injection stating, "The Contortionist's new music video is as beautiful as the song it accompanies." Norman's second directorial effort for the band, "Primordial Sound," would later be released through Vice's Noisey website, and depicts the band in an ultra minimalist, stripped down state.
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She was part of a vaudeville show at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in October 1899. She danced in a scene at a French ball included in a skit entitled Around New York In Eighty Minutes. A review described her as "a young woman who was seemingly made up of muscle but without bones, and who would make an ordinary contortionist turn green with envy at his talk of suppleness.""Dramatic And Musical", New York Times, November 7, 1899, pg. 5.
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Paul Scardon (6 May 1874 – 17 January 1954) was an actor, a producer, and a director on both Australian and New York stages. When he was 15, Scardon debuted on stage as a contortionist in vaudeville. He progressed from that to pantomime and then joined a troupe headed by J. C. Williamson, touring New Zealand and Australia for five years. In 1905, he joined a company headed by Nance O'Neil, and that group's tour brought him to the United States.
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Producer R. W. Goodwin believed that the contortionist—known only as "Pepper"—would only have limited success in fitting down the chimney set and would work mostly as a photo double. However, he was able to fit entirely inside the chimney; the production crew only needed to add some sound effects "of bones snapping and cracking". The scene in which Tooms enters Scully's home was initially filmed in Hutchison's absence. The crew shot his entrance later, using a larger blue screen set.
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At various times, he fought Hawk and Dove, Superboy, and Jack Knight, in addition to joining the original incarnation of Secret Society of Super Villains. Copperhead used the travel opportunities his freelance career afforded him to pursue his hobby of collecting transistor radios. Although a master contortionist, Copperhead was largely powerless without his snake-skin costume. During the Underworld Unleashed storyline, Copperhead sold his soul to the demon Neron in exchange for power, being transformed into a deadly human-snake hybrid.
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Copperhead's contortionist skills allow him to fit himself into incredibly small spaces (such as chimneys). He originally wore a snake-themed costume. The suit was a weave of metallic and elastic fibers and covered vulnerable points (such as the chest) with Kevlar, making it bulletproof and impenetrable to almost any cutting edged weapon. The costume had been treated with a highly slippery water- and heat-proof silicon gel, allowing Copperhead to slide along any surface and slip out of tight spots.
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Matters escalated. Meredith accused Considine of an affair with Mamie Jenkins, a 17-year-old contortionist who performed at his theater, stating that she had become pregnant and that Meredith himself had paid for her abortion. This was almost certainly a slander: she appears to have ruptured herself while performing. By this time the People's did not even have any closed boxes, but Meredith tried to shut it down under an anti-box-house ordinance, while letting actual box houses continue to operate.
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Boitel was born in 1984, the youngest of four children. Their father died in 1986, and from that time, Boitel's mother, Lilou, decided she would "follow her children and serve them". When the children wanted to study circus arts, their mother did not object, but could not afford the fees. The children took up street performance on the road between Collioure and Céret to earn the money: eight-year-old Boitel worked as a contortionist, while her brother Camille rode unicycle and juggled.
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Jimmy and the Boys were an Australian shock rock and new wave band, active from 1976 to 1982. They pioneered the use of shock theatrics in Australia with an act that revolved around vocalist and contortionist Ignatius Jones and keyboard player Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth. The group recorded two studio albums, Not Like Everybody Else (November 1979) and Teddy Boys Picnic (July 1981). In May 1981 they scored their only Australian top 10 single with "They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me".
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Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor, contortionist and mime. He is best known for portraying non-human creatures, usually via heavy make-up and visual effects. He most notably collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, appearing in the films Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Shape of Water (2017).Bell, David Christopher (November 14, 2013). "7 Iconic Costume Actors You Didn’t Notice In Non-Costumed Roles" .
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The show is hosted by Joey Fatone. The judges for the series are Olympic gymnast Mitch Gaylord, contortionist Aurelia Cats and choreographer Louie Spence who is also a judge on the British version. The celebrities are trained to perform various circus acts, and compete with each other for points from the judges and phone votes from the public on premium rated lines or by online voting via the official website. The acts are interspersed with banter and video from the training sessions and interviews.
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The film takes place in a small, New England town in 1919 (the Broadway play 1914), where a group of con men plan to use a faith healer to collect money. In New York City's Chinatown, four crooks conspire to swindle a small New England town. The gang consists of Tom Burke (Thomas Meighan), the head of the group; Rose (Betty Compson), a con artist posing as a street walker; "The Dope" (J.M. Dumont), who pretends to pimp Rose; and The Frog (Lon Chaney), a contortionist.
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Baby Ray is a band from Cambridge, Massachusetts that was formed in the 1996 from members of the band Brain Helicopter. The founding members are Ken Lafler and Erich Groat (also of Willard Grant Conspiracy).Ankeny, Jason "[ Baby Ray Biography]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation Their sound carries a pop sensibility, while still adhering to the alternative style of rock from the 90's. The Boston Phoenix described the band's music as a "clever kind of contortionist pop, with its pretzel-shaped melodies and impishly bratty wordplay".
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Captain Frodo passing through a tennis racket. Captain Frodo (born 1976 in Haugesund, Norway), also known as “The Incredible Rubberman”, is a Guinness World Record breaking contortionist living in Australia. He is the son of a famous Norwegian magician known as “The Great Santini”. Frodo was born double jointed which means he can dislocate joints, he uses this as the basis for most of his acts. He has been performing since he was eight years old starting out as an assistant at his father’s magic show.
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Padilla was the first judge to use the golden buzzer, pressing it for acrobatic duo, Power Duo. Locsin was the next to press for flair bartending couple Liquid Concepts. Then Vice Ganda was the third judge to press for collegiate Hip-Hop dance troupe, Power Impact Dancers, with Garcia coming in last, doing so for hat tricker/contortionist Mark Dune Basmayor. All four were found during the Manila auditions, hence the lack of calls for the use of the Golden Buzzer during the Davao auditions.
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At one of these clubs, she met and fell in love with Kay Boley, a vaudevillian and contortionist. During this period, she appeared in films, toured Alaska with a USO troupe, and began to be an advocate for women musicians. After a difficult period following the Second World War, in the 1950s Gilbert had success on radio and television programs. In 1974, at 69 years old, she created her last great all- female band, The Dixie Belles, with musicians from vaudeville and the Big Band era.
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We look forward to the process of finding a new vocalist and > writing a new record." Mike Lessard of Last Chance to Reason took over vocal duties for upcoming shows until the band found a permanent replacement. Mike Lessard commented on filling in for Carpenter: > "I'm happy to be helping my friends in the Contortionist for the next few > months on tour as a temporary vocalist. I'll be returning to my duties in > Last Chance to Reason once these dates are finished in May.
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Graff was also influenced by the escapist Houdini, prompting him to photograph a Mongolian contortionist and circus performers. Graff explained in an interview in Australian Magazine ‘Black +White’, 1995, "...that the figures are naked is very similar to Houdini’s performances – he would undress in front of his audience and be tied up. He had to prove there were no hidden tricks." Graff stated that Man Ray’s ‘Venus Restaurée’ (1936) was a precursor to his series of ‘Constrictions’. He was also influenced by the exhibition ‘Le Corps en Morceaux’ at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (1990).
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Ionesco was born to photographer Irina Ionesco, a Frenchwoman of Romanian descent, who had a relationship with a Hungarian man who worked in the military. Prior to Ionesco's birth, her mother had worked as a contortionist as she had come from a family of circus performers on her maternal side. Her parents separated when she was 3 at which point Ionesco became estranged from her father. In 1977 her mother lost custody of her and Ionesco lived for a time with the parents of footwear designer Christian Louboutin who had already left home.
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An accompanying music video for the song premiered on 18 November 2011 and is directed by Icelandic duo Arni & Kinski. It includes shots of Welch singing on a skyscraper and being chased by a contortionist. Upon its release, the video received mixed to positive reviews by critics who praised the dramatic shots, the religion and voodoo references. However, following its online release, several publications and users on various websites commented on the use of racism and racial imagery due to the black face of the voodoo man at the beginning, which Welch later denied.
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They note what they claim are differences in materials and styles of some sheela na gigs from their surrounding structures, and noting that some are turned on their side, to support the idea that they were incorporated from previous structures into early Christian buildings. In addition, typical continental exhibitionist figures differ from those of Irish sheela na gigs. There is a scarcity of male figures in Ireland and the UK, while the continental carvings are more likely to involve male figures. Continental figures also are represented in more contortionist postures.
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In fall 2013 they embarked on The Future Sequence Tour, where they played The Parallax II: Future Sequence all the way through. Support was provided by The Faceless, The Contortionist, and The Safety Fire. On February 14, 2014, it was announced Between the Buried and Me would record, and release a live album for The Parallax II: Future Sequence, playing it in its entirety with additional instruments, including a saxophone, percussionists, flute and a string quartet. The release, titled Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium, was released September 30, 2014.
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On March 17, 2015 they announced that Coma Ecliptic will be released through Metal Blade Records on July 7, 2015, and released a song titled "Memory Palace". It was later released July 10, 2015. From 2015 - 2017, Between the Buried and Me went out on their Coma Ecliptic World Tour and headlined with / co-headlined for August Burns Red, Animals as Leaders, Devin Townsend Project, Fallujah, Enslaved and The Contortionist. The band released "Coma Ecliptic: Live" on April 28, 2017, which has their entire "Coma Ecliptic" album played live in its entirety.
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He learnt his first ever magic trick The Coin Vanisher aged 10 and when he was 13, he performed for tips semi-professionally at various Newcastle City Centre bars, casinos and nightclubs. He developed a stage act incorporating comedy, magic and his natural ability of dislocation and contortion which he performed as a street show as well as a cabaret at various holiday parks on the South Coast of England. At age 16, he left school to become a full-time entertainer.News – Chronicle News – Contortionist Chris Cross up for Chronicle award.
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Leilani "Lucky" Franco, (born. 9 April 1986) is a British contortionist based in London and Berlin. She is most well known for appearances of a 2012 Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist, 2012 Das Supertalent semi-finalist and 2011 Eurovision solo dancer in Turkey. She has Guinness World Records for travelling a distance of 20 m (65 ft 7.2 in) in a back-bent position in a time of 10.05 seconds and the fastest contortion roll over a distance of 20 m (65 ft 7.2 in) in a time of 17.47 seconds.
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From 2008 to 2010, Franco worked exclusively with Cirque Éloize as a contortionist. In 2011, she moved to London to work as a freelance artist in clubs and cabarets such as The Box Soho, Cafe de Paris, Supperclub, The Old Vic Tunnels Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at various shows with the old Boom Boom club (now Boom and Bang Circus) in South Bank, London. Since 2013, she has participated in the show Little Big World by Sebastiano Toma in Germany. Additionally, she worked in the show Dummy at Chameleon Theatre as a replacement.
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A live DVD, titled Colors Live, was released on October 14, 2008 and includes footage from a live show on August 2, 2008 at Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee. The song "Prequel to the Sequel" is featured as downloadable content for the video game, Rock Band 2, though it is the radio edited version of the song, shortened to five minutes, leaving the polka verse and everything after missing. In May 2017, Between the Buried and Me announced a 10th anniversary tour of the album with The Contortionist, Polyphia, and Toothgrinder.
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She was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, the daughter of a tailor, John H. Warriss and his wife, born Frances Millicent Lindon. She was a cousin of the Rudge Sisters. Although some sources give her year of birth as 1878, official records show that she was born in 1869. She started working in music halls under the name Millie Lindon (a version of her mother's maiden name), and in 1895 married another music hall performer, the "eccentric comedian and contortionist" T. E. Dunville (Thomas Edward Wallen), who then managed her career.
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Yankovic had confirmed that the song would have a video to be released along with the album that would be "beyond awesome, and disturbing on many levels". A thirty-second video teaser was released on June 17, 2011, and the video was released on June 20, 2011, on Vevo and YouTube. The video was shown on VH1 Online, AMTV and Jump Start. The video was directed by Yankovic himself, and features Al's head superimposed on the bodies of dancer Vlada Gorbaneva and contortionist Marissa Heart using CG effects.
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Wagner was born in 1877, in Lyon County, Kansas, to David Van Buran Stevens and Sarah Jane McGee. Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, working in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a tattoo artist who described himself as "the most artistically marked up man in America" while traveling with circuses and sideshows—at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist. She exchanged a romantic date with him for a lesson in tattooing, and several years later they were married.
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In addition to his legacy with Porcupine Tree, some artists have cited Wilson directly as an influence, including Steffen Kummerer of Obscura, Caligula's Horse, Tor Oddmund Suhrke of Leprous, Jonathan Carpenter of The Contortionist, Bilocate, Alex Vynogradoff of Kauan, and Kenneth Wilson of Abigail's Ghost. In addition, other artists have been quoted expressing admiration for his solo work, including Alex Lifeson, Steve Howe, Robert Trujillo, Adrian Belew, Jordan Rudess, Mike Portnoy, Rob Swire, Seven Lions, Demians (Nicolas Chapel), Jem Godfrey, Jim Matheos, Dan Briggs, Eraldo Bernocchi, and Chantel McGregor.
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The 32nd International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo, 2008 A contortionist performs at the 32nd International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo in January 2008. The International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo () is an annual circus festival that is held in Monaco every January. The festival was created in 1974 by Prince Rainier III of Monaco to recognize and promote circus performers at the pinnacle of their profession. It was initially held in Monte Carlo until the festival's permanent venue in Monaco's Fontvieille district, the Chapiteau de Fontvieille, was completed.
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Alexis Fire is an American pornographic actress and prostitute at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. She began performing around 2000, and has since appeared in around 35 films. She appeared on the HBO documentary Cathouse, about the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a brothel near Carson City, Nevada. She has also appeared on Playboy Nightcalls, Playboy 411, the BBC documentary Sex, Warts and Everything, The Jenny Jones Show, Showtime's Family Business, The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, The Daily Show, and as a featured Lactating Contortionist on The Learning Channel documentary Body Benders.
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Ebenezer Laughton was born in Rhinebeck, New York, as the son of a farmer, along with his brother Ralph.Captain America #279-280 Raised by an abusive mother, Laughton became a circus escape artist and contortionist, and while working as a carnival performer once helped Iron Man apprehend a fleeing culprit. However, he decided to make his profit in crime and became an accomplished burglar and professional thief while dressed as a scarecrow. He mostly worked alone—except for a flock of trained crows which served as carriers and killers.
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In 1993 Magno was choreographer for Madonna on her world tour and HBO special The Girlie Show, for which his work was highly praised in Daily Variety. In 2001, Madonna worked with Magno again on her Drowned World Tour, adding tango, salsa, flamenco, karate, kung fu, Samurai sword work, a contortionist, and a traditional Javanese dancer. He was nominated for an Emmy award and an American Choreography Award for the tour. Following Madonna's tour, Magno began working for the male pop group Plus One on their 2002 Obvious tour.
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She can remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist-type feats without causing any damage to her spine. She has an ability to cling to surfaces with her hands and feet in a manner similar to Nightcrawler. Her fur provides near-invisibility when in the shadows, and she has excellent vision in dark conditions. Nocturne's powers include the ability to enter and possess another person's body for up to 12 hours; the experience usually leaves the other person comatose for up to 24 hours.
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The New York Times reviewer Manohla Dargis had a positive response to Suzan Crowley's acting and the scenes where the possessed is played by a contortionist, but considered that The Devil Inside was another foray into "a tediously exhausted subgenre that was already creatively tapped out when The Blair Witch Project spooked audiences more than a decade ago." The film's ending, in particular, came under heavy criticism. "Is it the worst movie ending of all time?" David Haglund asked in Slate, citing various negative audience reaction to that aspect of the film online.
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She has a crush on Socrates' friend Plato, who is oblivious to her advances. Frequent mention is made of Cynthia the Contortionist Flute-girl in suggestive contexts, but she never appears in person. The nature of the chorus varies from episode to episode. It may be the fish deliverymen on their daily round, a gang of former Olympians looking for a free meal, a band of sex-mad Spartans or the "unbelievably affable ones" (cheerful versions of the Furies) come to collect Socrates and take him to Hades.
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She usually infiltrates human society in casual clothing to investigate cases, on these occasions she tends to use the pseudonym "Sone Anna". She has used throwing knives as weapons in the first season of the show, and has shown considerable skill with these weapons. Hone Onna also seems to have some skill as a contortionist, which allows her to squeeze into very small places. The name Hone Onna comes from the yōkai of the same name, literally meaning "bone woman", which reflects her ability to expose the bones in her body to scare the victims of the revenge Ai delivers.
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Intervals is a Canadian progressive metal band. Formed in Toronto, Ontario, the band has toured throughout Canada and the United States with bands such as Animals as Leaders, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me and The Contortionist. Intervals released two EPs, The Space Between (2011) and In Time (2012), and their debut full-length album A Voice Within on March 4, 2014, featuring vocals by Mike Semesky. After the exit of every band member except for guitarist Aaron Marshall, follow-up albums The Shape of Colour (2015) and The Way Forward (2017) were released.
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The lead single, "Chucky Vs. the Giant Tortoise", was released on August 18, 2016. The music video for "Betrayed By The Game" was released on September 16, 2016, and the music video for "Young Robot" was released on September 27, 2016. In support of the album, the band embarked on The Mothership Tour with supporting acts The Contortionist, Hail the Sun, Good Tiger, and The White Noise, which took place from September 22 to October 27, 2016. Dance Gavin Dance embarked on the European leg of their 10-year anniversary tour from November 3 to 26, 2016.
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Actor Greg Vaughan and Lucky columnist Allyson Waterman co-hosted "Road to the Oscars", a weekly behind-the-scenes video blog on the Oscar ceremony website. Members of the dance troupe and contortionist group Pilobolus performed interpretive shadow figures representing scenes and logos from the nominated films. Actors Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and John C. Reilly performed a lighthearted musical number written by comedic director Judd Apatow and music composer Marc Shaiman satirizing comedy's lack of recognition at the Academy Awards. Conducted by musician Steve Sidwell, the Sound Effects Choir performed voice effects to a montage of classic films.
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In early 2012, Ortiz released his first EP under the Chimp Spanner name, All Roads Lead Here, which is focused around a three-movement piece called Möbius. The EP was originally scheduled to be released in May 2011, but was delayed due to personal reasons. In July/August 2012, Chimp Spanner embarked on their first tour of the United States, alongside Jeff Loomis, The Contortionist, and 7 Horns 7 Eyes. Ortiz enlisted Anup Sastry (Intervals, Skyharbor) and Gregory Macklin (Ordinance) to handle drum and guitar duties respectively, since he could not bring his regular live band to the US with him.
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At a book function for an existential drug guru named Doctor Robert, Jude, Lucy, Jo-Jo, Sadie, and Max drink punch laced with LSD. They embark with Doctor Robert on his "Beyond" bus ("I Am the Walrus"), end up stranded outside the compound of a psychonaut, and see Mr. Kite's bizarre circus where they are reunited with Prudence, who performs as Henry the Horse and is now dating a contortionist ("Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", "Because"). Back in New York, Max is deployed to Vietnam, leading Lucy to become increasingly involved in the anti-war movement, especially with Paco's SDR.
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Doc, a crook in Chinatown, must flee when Nikko, a local bazaar owner, gets fresh with Doc's accomplice, Helen Smith, and Doc nearly kills him. Using the name John Madison, Doc hides out in Meadville, California, where he meets the Patriarch, a faith healer. Hoping to capitalize on the Patriarch's reputation, Doc sends for Helen to pose as the Patriarch's grand niece, Helen Vail, and she is joined by fellow crooks Frog, a contortionist, and Harry Evans, a pickpocket. Doc stages a mock miracle in which Frog is "transformed" from a crippled state to perfect health.
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His appearance accounted for the "eccentric" part: he had a high forehead, and wore a black wig with a wide parting on the left; he wore a loose black jacket with large buttons, tight black trousers, and large boots. A disabled arm contributed to the "contortionist" part: the arm would jerk and swing with a life of its own as he performed an eccentric dance. Dunville's first wife, Fanny Warriss, attempted, with Dunville's support, a singing career on the music hall stage under the name Millie Lindon. Dunville's autobiography, The Autobiography of an Eccentric Comedian, was published by Everett & Co. in 1912.
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In 1976, Ignatius Jones was a founding mainstay member of shock rockers Jimmy and the Boys with Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth (born William O'Riordan) which formed in Sydney. The original line-up was Jones on lead vocals, Hairmouth on keyboards and vocals, Tom Falkinham on bass guitar, Scott Johnson on drums, Jason Morphett on saxophone and Andrew de Teliga on guitar. On-stage Jones was also a contortionist and Hairmouth was "the kitchiest of transvestites", other than Jones and Hairmouth, the line-up was regularly changed. By the end of the 1970s they were "one of the most popular live acts on the Australian scene".
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Outside, dawn is breaking, and the air is clouded with a hazy mist. No one else is awake, and he decides to go outside and explore the mysterious garden he had observed through the window the night before. He must break a lock to access the garden, and he is overcome with a foreboding feeling as he enters. Inside, he discovers the statues depict ominous-looking circus characters, including a lion tamer, a contortionist, a fakir, a strong man, and some other ghostly characters, all are arranged in a star pattern around one central figure on a pedestal: a terrible clown, with arms outstretched and hands in a fist.
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Episode 1: 14-year-old contortionist Princess Elayne from Argentina, who hit a target while blindfolded by shooting a bow and arrow with her feet while performing a backbend handstand. Episode 2: Motorcyclist Chris Florin of Grant, Florida. Episode 3: Playing card manipulator Rick Smith, Jr., who threw cards at over cutting vegetables and candlesticks in half, into the Master of Champions cup away, and through seven sheets of newspaper. Episode 4: The "Stupid Fun Club", a Berkeley, California based think tank specializing in robot-people technology, won a Rube Goldberg machine building contest against the current national champions, the "Uber Rubes" from Purdue University.
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The audience loved it, the judges apparently did not, and the eventual winner of the competition was Dmitry Bulkin, with his acrobatic performance on a vertical pole. There was a complaint by Rodin that Bulkin had misled the organizers of the competition, by claiming to be an amateur, and a car mechanic by trade, when he had actually performed in the Cirque du Soleil, and other prestigious circuses. In February 2010 he took part in the Channel TF1 French TV Talent Show Qui Sera le Meilleur ce Soir? He won the first round, a one on one competition with twelve-year-old Swiss contortionist Zoé Pauli-Bruttin.
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Daughters Aida, Consuelo, Gilberta, Esperanza, and Esther, were beautiful and talented ladies who all danced and performed trapeze acts and other acrobatic feats. Others performers participated in popular and traditional dance numbers, contortionist acts, and magic shows. Their spouses and children also performed patriotic songs to rally the crowds during World Wars I and II. Some members of the troupe also performed with other carpas, including Cubana and Monsiváis, as families became connected through marriage. After La Carpa Garcia disbanded, Rodolfo often portrayed Don Fito for sketches in and around San Antonio with other local comedians such as Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, and Detective Correone.
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Citrus Etoile was selected as a member of the prestigious Châteaux & Hotels Collection - Tables remarquables. The New York Times listed Citrus Etoile as a "must visit" new restaurant in Paris in 2006, stating "Chef Epie is a true culinary contortionist." In 2006, Condé Nast Traveller named Citrus Etoile as one of the Top 100 Hot Restaurants in the world. Citrus Etoile was also featured in Alain Ducasse's book, J’Aime Paris. After 13 successful years, Chef Epié sold Citrus Etoile and decided to return to America, a country he has always loved. Chef Epié was the French food correspondent for the BBC from 2010–2016.
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Contortionist Linda R. Hager was hired to perform the infamous "spider-walk scene" that was filmed on April 11, 1973. Friedkin deleted the scene just prior to the original December 26, 1973 release date because he felt it was ineffective technically. However, with advanced developments in digital media technology, Friedkin worked with CGI artists to make the scene look more convincing for the 2000 theatrically re-released version of The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen. Since the original release, myths and rumors still exist that a variety of spider-walk scenes were filmed despite Friedkin's insistence that no alternate version was ever shot.
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In 2010, they toured North America in support of Between the Buried and Me, and recorded their third album, The Collective, which they released the following year. Also in 2011, the band toured with Periphery and Fair to Midland, The Human Abstract, Cynic, 3, Protest the Hero, Last Chance to Reason, Volumes, Structures, Rings of Saturn, and The Contortionist. In April 2012, Jordan Eberhardt left the band, citing his reluctance to continue touring full-time; he was replaced by Mark Michell. In November 2012, Letchford announced that the band had started writing material for their next album, The Migration, which was released on June 11 the following year.
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Boitel with James Thiérrée in La Veillée des Abysses in Genoa in 2008 In 1996, the Boitel family joined Thiérrée and performed at Indre-et- Loire, where Raphaëlle Boitel was small enough to contort herself into a tiny box. She first toured internationally in 1998, in a major role in Thiérrée's La Symphonie du Hanneton (The Junebug Symphony), when she was 13 years old. She appeared as a contortionist (described by a Los Angeles Times critic as "boneless"), did acrobatics on a rope and on the trapeze. Her mother Lilou toured with the company, where she did costume design, and made sure Boitel continued her schooling by correspondence.
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Juan Ignacio Rafaelo Lorenzo Trápaga y Esteban (born 1957), known profressionally Ignatius Jones is a Filipino-born Australian events director, journalist, actor and previously fronted the shock rock band Jimmy and the Boys. From 1976 to 1982 the group pioneered the use of shock theatrics in Australia. By the end of the 1970s they were "one of the most popular live acts on the Australian scene" with Jones performing as lead vocalist and contortionist alongside Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth (born William O'Riordan) on keyboards and vocals as a kitsch transvestite. In 1981 they scored their only top 10 single with "They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me", which was written by Split Enz leader, Tim Finn.
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162 and Fawkes sought to expand his repertoire beyond sleight-of- hand and contortionism. He formed a close professional partnership with the Fleet Street clock and automata maker, Christopher Pinchbeck. Pinchbeck was responsible for much of the apparatus that Fawkes employed from the late 1720s onwards. The earliest record of Pinchbeck's work appearing in Fawkes show is from a 1727 advertisement for the "Temple of Arts": Fawkes' famous trick of producing an apple tree from seed which "bore ripe apples in less than a Minute's Time" relied on Pinchbeck's work and Fawkes slowly began to introduce demonstrations of some Pinchbeck's automata into his show alongside his sleight-of-hand conjuring and his son's contortionist display.
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When Rosalía performed a sold-out solo concert at London's Somerset House, NME gave the show five out of five stars and said: "In 2019, Rosalía is everything you could want from a pop star. She’s professional and dedicated to her craft. Her setlist is tight and she warrants the deep cuts. The dance routines are flawless, and she’s by turns humble and terrifying: being able to flit between those two is important. [...] It’s a military-tight operation, but not a vapid one: the nature of Rosalía’s music demands that the artist herself takes it seriously so the desired effect takes hold…If Ariana Grande is pop’s vocal acrobat, Rosalía is its contortionist: she reaches the corners others can’t".
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When Édith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus after an argument with the manager and begins performing on the streets of Paris. During a lackluster performance of her father's contortionist skills while Édith holds a hat for coins, a passerby asks if Édith is part of the show and, with prompting by her father to "do something" so the half-interested audience doesn't leave, she spontaneously sings "La Marseillaise" with raw emotion, mesmerizing the street crowd. Years later, a nightclub owner named Louis Leplée approaches Édith while she sings (and drinks) on the streets of Montmartre for supper money with her friend Mômone. He invites her to his club for an informal audition.
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The stereotypical image of the text is one where erotic pursuit with sexual intercourse include improbable contortionist forms. In reality, according to Doniger, the real Kamasutra is much more and is a book about "the art of living", about understanding one's body and a partner's body, finding a partner and emotional connection, marriage, the power equation over time in intimate relationships, the nature of adultery and drugs (aphrodisiacs) along with many simple to complex variations in sex positions to explore. It is also a psychological treatise that presents the effect of desire and pleasure on human behavior. For each aspect of Kama, the Kamasutra presents a diverse spectrum of options and regional practices.
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The singer was decked in a gold crown with a black veil, a tight black shirt with a leopard-printed bra peeking out from the top, leather arm bands and black skinny jeans and black high-heel boots. Madonna pretended to smash and break through the glass window of the confessional with a large rifle and proceeded to perform the song accompanied by a troupe of shirtless dancers wearing high heels, doing a choreography similar to the song's music video. The song was arranged to include musical elements of "Material Girl" (1985) and "Give It 2 Me" (2008). Moving blocks and contortionist dancers dressed up as gargoyles were also present in the performance.
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When the building tensions between Prospero and A.H- and the jealousy of Marco's ex-girlfriend spurned for Celia result in an innocent "rêveur" being accidentally stabbed in a circus tent, Celia begins to search for a way to end the game as quickly as possible while preserving the circus and those involved with it. Celia learns from Prospero that the game must continue until one of the participants is unable to go on, which usually means their death. She also learns the circus contortionist, Tsukiko, is not only a magician herself but the winner of a previous contest in which her opponent committed suicide. After Celia and Marco's negotiations with their mentors fail, Tsukiko believes the competition is putting the circus and its members at risk.
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Born in Cardiff, Wales and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Brebner is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. Her first play, Music for Contortionist, premiered at Tarragon Theatre in 2000 and was a shortlisted nominee for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. Her subsequent plays have included Liquor Guns Karate; Little Mercy's First Murder, which won six Dora Awards, including Outstanding New Musical; The Optimists, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama in 2006; Love Among the Russians; The President; and Heartbreaker. She was the English translator of Évelyne de la Chenelière's plays Strawberries in January (Des fraises en janvier), Bashir Lazhar and Public Disorder (Désordre public), and of Serge Boucher's Motel Hélène.
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The show stars a fictional British Indian family, including Madhuri and Ashwin Kumar (played by Indira Joshi and Vincent Ebrahim), their adult son Sanjeev (played by Sanjeev Bhaskar), and Sushila, Sanjeev's grandmother, normally referred to as Ummi (played by Meera Syal). The family lives in Wembley, London, England. The show's central premise is that Sanjeev's parents have supported his dream of being a television presenter by having a TV studio built on what used to be their back garden. Running gags include Sanjeev's apparent social ineptitude, Ashwin's obsession with financial matters and his tendency to tell long stories with no real point, and Ummi's stories of her absurd exploits with her childhood friend Saraswati the bicycle (so named because of her contortionist skills).
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A number of artists and bands have cited Opeth as an influence, among which are Mayan (a project of Mark Jansen from Epica), Luc Lemay of Gorguts, Soen (a band of former Opeth drummer Martin Lopez), Tor Oddmund Suhrke of Leprous, Disillusion, Caligula's Horse, Klimt 1918, Daniel Droste of Ahab, Becoming the Archetype, Nucleus Torn, Alex Vynogradoff of Kauan, Wastefall, Eric Guenther of The Contortionist, Thomas MacLean and To- Mera, The Man-Eating Tree, Knight Area, District Unknown, Nahemah, Vladimir Agafonkin of Obiymy Doschu, Schizoid Lloyd, Native Construct, Maxime Côté of Catuvolcus,, Bilocate, and Jinjer. In addition, other artists have been quoted expressing admiration for their work including Seven Lions, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Ihsahn, Simone Simons of Epica, Oliver Palotai of Kamelot, Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, and Haken.
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Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly appeared in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper's Longfellow Deeds in Frank Capra's classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937).
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Burlesque in Harlem (also released as Rock & Roll Burlesque and A French Peep Show) is a 1949 revue film directed by William D. Alexander that features a cast of singers, dancers and comedians who were prominent on the so-called Chitlin' Circuit of vaudeville theaters and nightclubs that exclusively presented African American talent. The plotless film is hosted by Dick Barrow, who sings "Juice Head Baby",Allmovie/New York Times overview and the main headliner is the comedian Pigmeat Markham, who performs a sketch called The Love Making Bureau.“Burlesque in Harlem,” Wild Realm Reviews Other performers in the cast include the dancer Gertrude "Baby" Banks, the singers Jo Jo Adams and Hucklebuck Jones, the striptease contortionist Tarza Young, and the tap dance duo Slip and Slide.Weldon, Michael J. “The Psychotronic Video Guide.”1996, St. Martin’s Press.
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According to Duncan Holley in "Match of the Millennium", "a contortionist would have had problems attaining a position ... to reach the ball." The Saints won the match 3–2, but lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the semi- final with goals from former Southampton players Wally Radford and George Hedley. Injury kept him out of the team for the early part of the 1908–09 season; he had a run of five matches at inside left in November before being switched to centre forward as replacement for Arthur Hughes who had suffered a bad leg injury. Although Costello scored in his first match in his new role (in a 4–2 victory over Plymouth Argyle on 12 December 1908), he was not a success and in March 1909 he was transferred to West Ham United, with Jack Foster moving in the opposite direction.
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During the middle eighth, Manson is shown with childlike versions of "Fuzzy" and "Lightbulb man". She then leaves them behind to walk through a graveyard towards a hooded man bringing her an oversized balloon. Throughout the duration of the video, footage of various non-related characters is shown: a masked female and a stuffed deer, two humanoid aliens conjoined by a glowing head-growth, two toddlers riding adults piggyback as the adults wildly thrash, two Asian businessmen fighting, a Navy Officer contortionist who alludes to a foot fetish, a naked woman emerging from glowing hospital bath and a little girl surrounded by four members of SWAT raising a toast just before an explosion behind the camera. The hooded character is later revealed to be Manson herself, unmasking in view of a mirror before licking her own reflection.
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Becoming a professional contortionist, Morgan has appeared in many known movies such as Piranha 3D, Minority Report, Fright Night and has made an appearance as Beth in the short film Sorority Pillow Fight (alongside Michelle Rodriguez). She also provided stunts in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, for which she was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and in the William Brent Bell's documentary-style horror film The Devil Inside. She acted as well in several commercial spots and holds a record registered in the Guinness World Records having spent around three minutes with two other people in a box of two by two foot. Morgan is also known for her role as Samara Morgan, the antagonist of The Ring franchise, portraying the role in Rings and in stunts for The Ring Two.
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Brandreth, p. 1 they did not achieve much success, and the family struggled in poverty.Brandreth, p. 2 Having had very little schooling, and being raised by performers, Leno learned to entertain as a child. In 1862, Leno's parents and elder brothers appeared at the Surrey Music Hall in Sheffield, then performed in Manchester, Glasgow and Northampton later in the year.Anthony, pp. 12–13 In 1864, at the age of four, Leno joined his parents on stage for the first time, at the Cosmotheca Music Hall in Paddington, under the billing "Little George, the Infant Wonder, Contortionist, and Posturer"."Biography of Dan Leno" , Victoria and Albert Museum website, accessed 20 January 2012 When Leno was four years old, his alcoholic father died, aged 37; the family then moved to Liverpool, where his mother married William Grant (1837–1896),Anthony, pp.
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Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman and Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America Volume 1, Routledge (2006) - Google Books, p. 330 The critic of The New York Times called Dressler, "...an utterly preposterous music hall performer" while another stated of her, "It was hardly a case of acting. Better call it a case of letting herself go... She seemed a big, overgrown girl and a thoroughly mischievous romp with the agility of a circus performer and the physical elasticity of a professional contortionist... Her comic resource was inexhaustible, her animal spirits irrepressible and her audacity approached the sublime." A production was held at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol (1893-1894),The Lady Slavey - Prince's Theatre, Bristol - Theatricalia website while in 1897 Robert Courtneidge revived The Lady Slavey at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester.
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As he leaves, his replacement gives him a shell casing that she found from the bullet that had struck him. Bazil, who has miming and sign language talents, becomes a homeless busker until he is taken in by a man named Slammer (Jean- Pierre Marielle) to Tire-Larigots, a shelter carved under a mountain of recycling material. Bazil is befriended by the other scavenging dwellers: Elastic Girl (Julie Ferrier), a contortionist, Mama Chow (Yolande Moreau), who feeds and mothers the crew, Remington (Omar Sy) a former ethnographer from Africa who speaks entirely in old-fashioned language clichés, Buster (Dominique Pinon), a former human cannonball, Tiny Pete (Michel Crémadès), an artist who designs moving sculptures from scavenged trash, and Calculator (Marie-Julie Baup), a young woman who measures and calculates things with a glance. Slammer himself is a former convict who miraculously survived an execution by guillotine.
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The Nothing Rhymes with Circus Tour feature the band's first highly theatrical live shows, which featured every song with dance numbers, skits, and tricks performed by a six-member troupe, as the band donned intricate costumes, loosely re-enacting moments from the songs. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times noted the sudden success and circus-inspired tour of the young band in a concert review: "There’s something charming about watching a band trying to navigate sudden success, aided by a contortionist, a ribbon dancer and all the rest of it." MTV News favorably likened its theme and wardrobe to "Janet Jackson's audience-dividing, hypersexual The Velvet Rope Tour." The group, fresh off the major success of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, took a break after non-stop touring, and the group members began formulating ideas for their next album together during the winter of 2006.
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Following the events of The Hostile Hospital, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire arrive at Caligari Carnival in the trunk of Count Olaf and his theatre troupe's car, unknown to them. Olaf and his associates speak of seeking Madame Lulu, a mysterious fortune-teller and owner of Caligari Carnival, for answers of the whereabouts of the Snicket files, which apparently contains crucial information on V.F.D. As the troupe discuss with Lulu, the Baudelaires escape the trunk and disguise themselves as freak volunteers for the Carnival's freak show, Violet and Klaus as a two-headed humanoid 'Beverly' and 'Elliot', and Sunny as 'Chabo the Wolf Baby', a supposed half-wolf. After being accepted by Lulu, they meet three other freaks in the 'Freak Caravan' - Hugo, a hunchback - Kevin, who is ambidextrous - and Colette, a contortionist. The Baudelaires are oblivious to the reason of their self-consciousness on their rare abilities.
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The Amazing Cristina at 66 Christine Danton (Shillaker), professionally billed as "The Amazing Cristina" is an Australian contortionist who is still performing her contortion act at the age of 67. Now celebrating over 50 years as a professional performer, Christine has been featured on several TV Shows, including "Just for the Record" and "Australia's Got Talent", and has worked internationally in theatre, film"Innocence" (2000) Written, Directed & Produced by Paul Cox and circus. In the early 1960s while performing in Europe, Christine was asked to pose for the medical journal "Hypermobility of Joints", and it was those b&w; images that were used in early (and possibly later) editions of that publication."Hypermobility of Joints" (Author- Peter Bieghton) Publisher - Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K; 2nd Revised edition (Aug 1989) Christine performs her contortion act on a regular basis and is also in great demand as an "After Dinner Speaker".
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In Yoga Body, Singleton sets modern yoga in context with images such as this pose close to Samakonasana in Thomas Dwight's "The Anatomy of a Contortionist", Scribner's Magazine, April 1889. Harold Coward, reviewing Yoga Body for the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, writes that the book provides a "very detailed analysis" of how hatha yoga changed "from being seen as a blight" to regaining "a positive perception in the modern West." In his view, the book is "an excellent contribution to our understanding of how asana yoga evolved in the decades after Vivekananda and became the basis for much of the postural yoga experienced in Anglophone culture today", offering "user friendly, but serious scholarship" on the history of modern yoga. The historian Jared Farmer, in Reviews in American History, writes that the book does a great service in enabling study of "this creolized tradition", he neither provides a single clear narrative, nor states which of the many causal factors he identifies are the most important.
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These statistics prove the Town of Chester to be a mostly-agricultural society in the 19th century. Travelers would often stop in at the Wells House (built in 1845 by Joseph Hotchkiss) which offered memorable hospitality as a hotel. The Wells House offered fish dinners caught on Schroon Lake and venison from the surrounding forests. The hotel was frequented by “Summer Folks” from areas such as Albany, New York, and Glens Falls, New York. An old Pottersville event was the “Pottersville Fair” which was started in 1877 by a family by the name of Faxton. The fair went bankrupt after a few years due to gambling and drinking issues, but was held once again in 1910 by the “Pottersville Fair Association”. Some of the festivities of the 1913 Pottersville Fair included watching 400 automobiles parade through the streets, along with an Ox race, music, a dog and pony show, and a contortionist, with an audience of about 7,000 people.
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Ignatius Jones (born Juan Ignacio Trapaga) and Joylene Thornbird Hairmouth (born William O'Riordan) were friends from Cranbrook School and Saint Ignatius' College, exclusive private schools in Sydney. The pair founded Jimmy and the Boys in 1976 as a shock rock group with Jones on lead vocals, Hairmouth on keyboards and vocals, Tom Falkinham on bass guitar, Scott Johnston on drums, Jason Morphett on saxophone and Andrew de Teliga on guitar. On stage Jones was also a contortionist and Hairmouth was "the kitchiest of transvestites". Other than mainstays, Jones and Hairmouth, the line-up was regularly changed. In 1978 Hairmouth and Jones were joined by Danny Damjanovic on saxophone and flute, Steven Hall on guitar and vocals, Barry Lytten (ex-Rabbit) on drums and Michael Parks on bass guitar and vocals. In October 1979 the group issued their debut single, "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" which is a cover version of The Kinks 1966 B-side of "Sunny Afternoon".
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On October 5, 2015, it was announced by the band that Barr would be sitting out their European tour with Northlane to continue working on the upcoming album and further the creative process. Consequently, The Contortionist frontman Michael Lessard would be filling in. The following month on the 19th Volumes announced that Barr had departed from the band due to "different musical direction and taste", and Born of Osiris member Joe Buras will be stepping in for current touring duties until their new vocalist is announced. It wouldn't be until the following year that Barr would return to music with a solo project, separate from the rest of the band. On June 5, 2016, the band announced that they had finally found their permanent replacement for Barr, with former Bury Your Dead vocalist Myke Terry. On the 16th the band followed the announcement of their new vocalist with the news that they had left Mediaskare Records and signed with Fearless Records also releasing their new single, "Feels Good" and first song with new vocalist Terry.
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Operational instructions issued by BAFF included a warning that The RAF had tried to improve the performance of its aircraft; streamlining the Blenheim had added to its speed. To remedy the vulnerability of Battles to attacks from below, a rear-facing machine-gun was fitted to the bomb-aimer's position but "...it needed a contortionist to fire it....", Fairey designed a well in the floor of the bomb aiming position for the gunner to lie prone facing the rear but the change would need three months for development and testing. With in storage, the modifications could be done at Fairey and the aircraft swapped with those in France without interfering with AASF operations but the idea was shelved. To speed production of new aircraft, a review was held to strip existing machines of superfluous equipment and the committee suggested that for tactical bombing, the Battle autopilot [], night flying gear [], bomb sight [] and the navigator–bomb-aimer [] could be dispensed with, saving , which would allow the fitting of more forward-firing guns with no nett increase in weight.
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Thursday, April 19, Friday, April 20, Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 22 April 19, 2012 Thy Will Be Done, Last Chance To Reason, The Confrontation, Forsaken, Eyes of the Dead, Strike Hard, Acaro, Conforza, Desiccation, Widow Sunday, Hivemasher April 20, 2012 The Black Dahlia Murder, The Acacia Strain, Oceano, All Shall Perish, Obey The Brave, Nile, Skeletonwitch, Lionheart, Carnifex, Fleshgod Apocalypse, First Blood, Molotov Solution, The Contortionist, Reign Supreme (band), Conducting From The Grave, Fit For An Autopsy, Incendiary, Palehorse, Hour of Penance, Legion, Relentless, Pathogenic. April 21, 2012 All That Remains, DragonForce, Overkill, Unearth, Iwrestledabearonce, Protest the Hero, Periphery, Bane, God Forbid, Shipwreck, Cruel Hand The Mongoloids, Structures (cancelled), System Divide, Naysayer, The Greenery, Diamond Plate, Rotting Out, Expire, Trumpet The Harlot, Manners, Malefice (cancelled), Suidakra, Cockpunch, Fire In The Skies, Wrong Answer, Revenge. April 22, 2012 Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die, Vanna, Emmure, For Today, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping Giant, Stick To Your Guns, Attila, On Broken Wings, Mychildren Mybride, For the Fallen Dreams, Texas In July, Upon A Burning Body, Volumes, Like Moths To Flames, Glass Cloud, Hundredth, No Bragging Rights, Counterparts, Gideon.
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