🎞️ adance15.jpg

Here is a small bonus, an attempt to enhance one more photograph from the same old set from the 1930s.

What a lovely set of vintage photographs. The backdrop and the postures are simply enchanting, they bring us back to a different era when people were more carefree, bending their backs backwards as if spreading the invisible wings of freedom – not bowing their necks down like insignificant little slaves of corporate monsters.

I remember when I first saw this picture, it struck me with the illusion of a body split entirely in two separate halves by some circus magician's trick. The more I stared at it, the more intrigued I was to understand how someone could manage to bend their body in such an extreme way – yet she did so with such grace and joy that it made me smile along with her.

Sadly, the Contortion Homepage website that used to host the original photos seemed to have undergone a massive redesign, replacing its classic 1990s aesthetics with an uninspired modern template in 2024, and somehow this whole photoset mysteriously vanished in the process... The reason behind this loss remains uncertain, so we urge the site administrators to address this issue promptly and restore the original content to its former glory.