Library of DanceMongolian Contortion: The Art of Bending
Open accessPractitioner accountWritten from inside the tradition

Mongolian Contortion: The Art of Bending

Virginia Folklife Program, Virginia Humanities · Virginia Humanities

Why this source matters

A folklife documentation project on uran nugaralt with a master Mongolian contortionist, covering training age, lineage and transmission — one of very few English-language sources on the tradition that speaks to practitioners rather than about them.

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