Elayne Kramer is doing something I would not have thought possible. She is literally hanging by her teeth and jaws with her body impossibly balanced. The vertical rod is topped by something made of leather or rubber. I don't remember how long she hung there because I was stunned. And then she uncurled safely. Big applause for Circus Flora.
The atomic makeup of a protein molecule is not its only important characteristic. How the elements are folded onto one another is, I've read, critical. How the human body can be folded is a subject of comfort, activity and circus gymnastics. Elayne Kramer from Argentina is an international star in hand balance and contortion. I'll show more.
One of the final acts at Circus Flora was this woman who could do things with her joints that humans are not meant to do. She looks like she is - what? - physically emerging from herself. Maybe her partner is a chiropractor.
The caption has nothing to do with combustible pastimes when I was in college. The person who played the defense counsel in The Trial Of The Century was something of a contortionist (and not the only one in the circus). It's hard to tell from this straight on view but that's a toilet seat he is wriggling his way through. I thought that part of the point of a toilet seat is that you couldn't get through it. Potty humor. The kids thought it was hilarious. Plenty of their parents did, too.
