“Bendy Em” the Contortionist
December 31st 2008 04:45
I came across a contortionist putting on a street show as I was leaving the MCA the other day. I joined the growing crowd around the woman outside the museum in time for these shots. The flexible lass called herself Emma or “Bendy Em”.
lifted by a good sport from the audience
getting ready for a handstand
Then Emma said she’d be stuffing herself into a 16x16inch box. When she seemed to struggle to get into the box and remarked that “it looked bigger in the catalogue”, I thought she’d been kidding about fitting into that tiny space.
holding the handstand longer than the audience held the applause
Thinking the show had ended, I left only to find out later on her website that she hadn’t been kidding.
trying to get into the box
See for yourself how she fit into the box here.
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