The UniverSoul Circus Bone Breakers

Among UniverSoul Circus’s many mind-boggling acts under the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Big Top, the Bone Breakers were the most twisted. These four young contortionists from Conakry, Guinea, showed us the human body’s seemingly boundless abilities to fold, flex, and stretch.

Camera: David Barnes, Hae-Yang Chang, Shelley Davis, Andrew Dowdell, Gary Francis, Alexis Ligon, Michelle Mehrtens, Ryan Shank, Casey Smith, Albert Tong, Paul Weiss, Kamila Young
Editor: Colin Stucki

[Catalog No. CFV10955; Copyright 2017, Smithsonian Institution]

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