Well, I feel like I can speak to that because I had a pretty bad back injury a few years ago unfortunately from contortion . Um, and and it was an incredible learning process and I know so much more about physical therapy andhow to warm up um, and how to cool down afterwards. Um, and it it meant that I took a couple years not doing contortion
So it's really magical to see them do these short films and a subject matter like suicide, and bullying, and really deep subjects And we have contortionists.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. It was like a contortionist.
You are information jugglers. You are contortionists of the possible. You are acrobats of invention.
Here we go. Craig Ramsay in video: My training history started in Canada. I was a hockey player turned contortionist, turned ballet dancer, turned Broadway performer. Craig Ramsay: Nice shorts, right?
somebody else. Um, yeah, for your mutual safety really. I can um speak to that a bit in contortion which is the the learning process for contortion is just stretching a lot for a really long time which can be painful. Um but there there's is a really beautiful metaphor
whether it is the androgynous costuming or the breaking out of traditional gender roles when it comes to some of the dancing. And so now she's smoking three cigarettes at the same time, and doing incredible contortion , and crazy strip tease, and just amazing things.
If you keep doing this, the line becomes more and more fractal-like. Eventually, if you keep applying the right kind of contortions , that one-dimensional line segment fills up an entire region of the 2D plane. Hausdorff assigned these space-filling fractal curves a value of 2.0, corresponding to their dimensionality.
We pass Emmett Till's casket, its bronze hue radiating under the museum lights. I do not need to see the dead boy's face in the casket to remember its tragic contortions . I do not need to listen to anything other than the light softly buzzing above us to hear Mammy Teal's unceasing sobs.
was my first ever rope coach years ago and we've just been friends and ever since then. Um, yeah, I'm Jackie. I'm a contortionist. Um, if that was not obvious already. Um, I also do some aerial duo straps and I'm learning some rope thanks
Craig Ramsay: I'll play the video again, okay? Craig Ramsay: But the reason why I say that is because my background with having been a contortionist and now being a medically trained fitness professional for twelve years is the body has to be in correct alignment when you execute all of these workouts.
machine it means one of two things, either you're injured and you know what you're doing or you don't know what you're doing, you're insecure and you jump on the elliptical machine Yep? Male #10: So you mentioned you were a contortionist Craig Ramsay: Do you want me to prove it?
And I know, I know now why this happens but 'cause I'm an electrical engineer, but as soon as I grabbed the antennae guess what happened? The picture would improve, right? And guess what my Dad would say? "Stay there." So-so here I am in a contortionists mode trying to watch-watch TV while tryin' to keep Mom and Dad and my, the rest of my siblings happy and them watching a good, a good picture, right? And-and I also remember, I also remember whenever we needed to change the channel guess
contortion . Um, and and it was an incredible learning process and I know so much more about physical therapy andhow to warm up um, and how to cool down afterwards. Um, and it it meant that I took a couple years not doing contortion at all, which helped me work on a duo straps act with my husband over there.
into like other genres because I uh I've seen Pippen recently. We had the cast of Pippen here to do the same kind of event and and it was a lot of the same, you know, Orion was here doing Contortion as well and and I think some of you know some of them possibly like it seems like you all do. Like how much how much how easy is it to be like I'm going to go do
For years, I tried answering these questions, and wondered if my parents' rocky marriage or my failed two-week middle school relationship factored into my depression. As I entered high school, however, I began to realize that these contortions of the mind were rooted in an internal struggle with my race and my identity.
stretching a lot for a really long time which can be painful. Um but there there's is a really beautiful metaphor physical theater and contemporary circus that was happening. Um so I started doing circus in high school which is late particularly for a contortionist.