Collegiate acrobatics and tumbling took another major step towards NCAA Championship status on Thursday. The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics voted on May 15 in favor of a recommendation that ...

The dangerous and exhilarating sport of acrobatics has a long history in China BEIJING, May 14, 2010 — -- Balanced high on a single bicycle, 20 Chinese girls contort themselves into knots. A ...

Another batch of trainee acrobats from developing countries left China this month after studying for a year at the Hebei Wuqiao Acrobatic Art School. A foreign student hones her skills at the school. ...

ANHUI, East China — Nine-year-old Zhengyang never chose the life of a performing acrobat. Just months after he was born, Zhengyang’s mother ran away and was never seen again. His 20-year-old father, a ...

Chinese acrobatics boasts a long history. The practice of early acrobatics dates back to the Neolithic Age. It was during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) though that acrobatics made their debut as a ...

Foregin acrobats perform at the 15th China Wuqiao International Circus Festival in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 7, 2015. Wuqiao county is known as "the home of acrobatics" in China, ...