contortion
51tortuosity — noun a tortuous and twisted shape or position they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs the acrobat performed incredible contortions • Syn: ↑tortuousness, ↑torsion, ↑contortion, ↑crookedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
52tortuousness — noun 1. puzzling complexity • Syn: ↑complicatedness, ↑complication, ↑knottiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑tortuous, ↑knotty (for: ↑knottiness), ↑ …
53Chinese variety art — Balancing acts within Chinese Variety Art Chinese Variety Art (Chinese: 雜技藝術) is the name giving to the collection of performances that include a wide range of acrobatic, balancing acts and other spectacles performed by a troupe fashioned in… …
54Dralion — Performers balance on illuminated lightbulbs in a Vienna performance of Dralion. Company Cirque du Soleil …
55Circus skills — See also: Circus, Sideshow, and Contemporary circus. Circus skills are a group of pursuits that have been performed as entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being… …
56Contorsion tensor — The contorsion tensor in differential geometry expresses the difference between a metric compatible affine connection with Christoffel symbol Γijk and the unique torsion free Levi Civita connection for the same metric. The contortion tensor is… …
57O (Cirque du Soleil) — O Cover art from the O music album Company Cirque du Soleil Genre …
58Frontbend — 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.ee also*Paschimottanasana (seated forward bend… …
59The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …
60Pina Conti — is an Australian contortionist from Perth. She has performed in many countries as well as Australia. A former dancer she turned to contortion and appeared in a local television talent show. In the mid 1980s she gained widespread exposure as the… …
