Body Manipulations is well known for years of performance at fetish balls, parties, and private events. We have performed suspensions, marionette, tug-of-war, branding, bondage, cutting, and good old-fashioned blood-dripping piercing.

Vaughn has that industrial metalworker gene passed down by his father. He often enjoyed the initial unveiling of his various suspension racks more than being on stage. Vaughn always had some new idea of a frame to hang him in a different position. Good thing we have so much space in our basement to store those indespensible atifacts.

Paul has been on stage long before his involvement with Body Manipulations. Originally performing under the name "Haploid" he bashed metal and plastic to bits for noise shows. Once he arrived in San Francisco in 1993, it became his body that took the bashing. Always healing something, he ran a private series called "Journey Through Pain" out of his shop on Haight street. After that their was "Sandbox", held in an 8,000 sq ft wharehouse filled with sand and trees. There was a 3-ton overhead crane he always managed to incorporate. There were hooks, hundreds of needles, sharp nails, hot metal, straight razors, duct tape, hot wax, lots and lots of rope, and always a fainter in the audience. Ah...those were the days!

Flying Tiger Circus began as the 13th anniversary party for Body Manipulations. Produced and directed by Paul, this once a year show brings you all the above along with acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, handbalancers, platespinners and aerialists. A balanced display of the limits of the body. We make each show astonishing enough to bring your mother along, but we still let you see the blood!

Big White Monkey
and Xiao Hong Weng

Jocasta flies above the crowd