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Image: Acrobatics Art Festival (© Getty Images)

Image: Tihany Spectacular Circus (© Marco Ugarte/AP)

Image: Mongolian National Circus (© Claro Cortes IV/Newscom/Reuters)

Image: Shanghai Circus (© Rob Griffith/AP)

Image: Acrobatics Art Festival (© Getty Images)

Image: Spaghetti Circus contortionists (© Troy Bendeich/Newspix/Rex Features)

Image: Walking on stairs (© Getty Images)

Image: A gymnastics class (© Sheng Li/Reuters)

Image: Cirque du Soleil (© Paulo Whitaker/Newscom/Reuters)

Image: Acrobatics Art Festival (© Getty Images)

Image: Tihany Spectacular Circus (© Marco Ugarte/AP)

Image: Blue Sky Girls (© Eric Gaillard/AP)

Image: Contortionist photo (© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Image: Mongolian National Circus (© Claro Cortes IV/Newscom/Reuters)

Image: Zunyi Acrobatic Troupe (© Daniel Ochoa deOlza/AP)

Image: Contortionist brothers (© Keystone/ZUMA/Rex Features)

Image: Shanghai Circus School (© Rick Rycroft/AP)

Image: A contortionist on 'Ellen' (© Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Image: A box squeeze (© Stephen Hird/Newscom/Reuters)

Image: Kathmandu performance (© Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

Image: Gymnastics training (© Sheng Li/Reuters)

Image: The Golden Domes (© Francois Mori/AP)

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