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"I don’t care what the doctors think."

"I don’t care what the doctors think."

Kevin Zandrac, 15, from Colombia, stretches before a performance on Thursday, March 26. Zandrac has been a contortionist in the Carson & Barnes Circus since he was an infant while his father Julio is the head tent engineer. Doctors have told him to stop contorting his body so extremely because eventually it will lead to long-term joint problems in the future. “I want to be in Cirque Du Soleil so I don’t care what the doctors think,” Zandrac said.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part "Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”  "The tent is enormous." "My whole family is in the circus." "I don’t care what the doctors think."  The Official Carson & Barnes Circus Coloring Book Stretching Together Before the Show Often Working from Dawn to Dusk "I feel comfortable in the air." For the Elephants to Enter Doesn’t Know Where to Look Dismantling the Universe Every Night  Melvino Has Been in Several Circuses