Mongolian Contortion Center is proud to present its second annual circus show “Celebration of Contortion Art.” The incredible circus show is filled with jaw-dropping performances including bendy contortionist girls from “Mongolian Contortion Center,” clowns, jugglers, belly dancers, aerialists, unicycle tricks and many more circus acts from around the world.
Mongolian Contortion Center was founded in San Francisco, CA by a world-renowned Mongolian Contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. Serchmaa enrolled in Mongolian National Circus Contortion training program and became one of those very few fortunate girls to train under the World acclaimed Contortion legend Madam Tsend-Ayush. Serchmaa’s career in Contortion started in 1989 when she went to Russia to perform in front of thousand for the very first time. Since then she performed with “Mandukhai” Mongolian Ethnic Ensemble and traveling circus “Urguu” and Mongolian Ethnic dance and music ensemble “Jamukha” in many countries including Russia, Poland, Korea, Japan, China, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Pakistan, France, Mexico and United States of America.
In October 16thof 1992, while performing in Germany with “Urguu” circus troupe, Serchmaa was invited to participate in European Youth Circus Festival in Weistbaden, Germany. More than 35 countries sent their top circus performers including four other contortion acts from Nederland, Hamburg, Belgium and Hungary. Serchmaa was the only and still is, Asian ever to be invited to participate in European Youth Circus Festival and she won the “Golden Elephant” award and named the golden girl of Contortion.
In 1998, Serchmaa moved to USA following her husband and later in the year, was invited to be the part of traveling circus “Cirque Ingeniuex”. Serchmaa performed with the circus for a year and decided not to continue on with the circus tours, but to stay close to her family in San Francisco, CA. After settling in, Serchmaa started performing as an independent artist and she appeared in many individual shows and performed as a part of circus shows, including numerous TV talk shows, Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report”, Will Smith’s “Pursuit of Happiness”, San Francisco Black and White Ball, Mongolian Cultural event In New York city, “The Bird House” circus performance in Canadian “Cirque Du Soleil” performing theater “TOHU”, fire ballet “Odyssey” by Crucible, TV show “30 minutes to fame”, fashion clothing line “Dema” and “Cirque de Oy Vey”.
Master Teacher Serchmaa Byamba started her teaching in 1994. She is the founder of Mongolian Contortion Center in San Francisco and she also teaches at “Circus Center of San Francisco” and “Acro Sports of San Francisco”. Her students include from 5 years old to 35 years. She offers well designed flexibility, conditioning or contortion classes. For the trained eyes, it is easier to recognize talent and that is why she meets you and takes one on one private classes with you before decide what exactly you need and your body can take. Serchmaa Byamba has over 40 students training with her and many of them perform in local and international shows and circus’ including “Cirque Du Soleil”, “Theatro Zinzanni”, “Circus Finelli”, Performance at Golden State Warriors Half Time show and successfully competed into the semi-finals of “America’s Got Talent” TV show.
