About The Artist

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Toria Summerville is a real life human pretzel from Ajax, Ontario and has been a professional performer in her field for 11 years now. Over her career she has been trained by elite performers in a number of disciplines including hand-balancing, dance, acting, acrobatics, aerial arts and specializing in contortion.

 

Also known as Flexy-T, Toria began her journey as a multi-time award-winning dancer. By the time she was a young adult, she ran away with the circus! Ever since she was a little girl, she has possessed rare natural flexibility beyond that of the average person. Her super power is caused by a collagen deficiency due to a connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Toria is humbled that she can use her rare disease to her advantage as she has turned its effects on her body into her full-time career. 

 

Her career thus far has seen her performing across North America with a myriad of talent companies (Cirque Revolution, Illuminair Entertainment, Trillium Entertainment, Trellis Entertainment, Zero Gravity Circus, Hit & Run Dance Productions, among others). She has dazzled large audiences at high profile events such as being the featured act for a live televised national broadcast for the NBA, on Halloween night for the Toronto Raptors game. She has been a featured performer at Canada's largest fair, The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), and she can be seen performing her act as a contestant on Season 2 of Canada’s Got Talent on CityTV.

 

In addition, Toria has found her passions expanding for creature acting in the more recent years. She is a full union member of ACTRA. Her most recent credits include; acting and performing contortion stunts in the Netflix Documentary “The Devil On Trial”, Amazon Studio’s “Gen V”, Eli Roth’s Virtual Reality Experience “Trick VR Treat”, Netflix's "Umbrella Academy", The Documentary about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome “Bend or Break”, "Davey & Jonesie's Locker", “American Gods”, “What we do in the Shadows”, and is featured in music videos for Kandle Osborne’s indie-hit “Bender”, and can be found in Gabriela Bee’s “Like 2 Like”. In her most recent creature role, she was honoured to work with director Corin Hardy on his new film "Whistle".