Twisted Windows
A San Francisco production collective led by Shay Tiziano that stages bondage and rope performance showcases and publishes rope safety material. It co-produces the Bondage Stage at the Folsom Street Fair and a Folsom-weekend gala.
Twisted Windows is a San Francisco producer of bondage and fetish performance led by Shay Tiziano, who is also its main teacher. Its events page lists shows it produces itself, curated performance showcases, appearances by its troupe, and classes. Shay is the author of Tying & Flying, a book on self-suspension, and Creating Captivating Classes, a guide for kink and sexuality educators, and edited the anthology Soaring & Exploring.
Troupe. The Twisted Windows troupe calls itself a collective of rope performers who treat bondage performance as movement art. Its roster lists about fifteen acts, among them Ivy Limieux, Lief Bound with Icarus, the Dual Demons and Angel, Shay’s regular performance partner. Styles range from shibari to circus-style rope and Western flyer-driven rope, and the troupe includes tyers, flyers and self-suspenders. Members also give private rope lessons in the Bay Area.
Folsom weekend. Twisted Windows runs a multi-day program around the Folsom Street Fair: a warm-up night, a Friday play party, a Saturday gala of aerial, suspension, shibari and fetish acts (held at SOMArts in 2026) and the Bondage Stage at the fair on Sunday. The 2025 Bondage Stage, co-produced with Kinky POC Bay Area, ran for seven hours with more than 50 sets and over 100 performers. In 2026 the company also produced the Root of Pride stage at SF Pride and put rope performers on the main stage at Up Your Alley.
Classes and jams. Shay teaches self-suspension in a class called Tying and Flying, and the 2026 Bay Area calendar included a monthly self-tie jam at VoxBody Studio and occasional Rope Labs, open-format sessions in San Francisco and Oakland. Outside the Bay Area, the calendar lists teaching and performing at conventions such as Dark Odyssey, KinkFest and Gen Con.
Safety resources. The site’s bondage safety section, first published as Remedial Ropes, covers safety tools and when to cut rope, negotiation and safewords, circulation, nerve compression and first aid, aftercare and common safety myths, with citations to medical literature. The site also publishes a code of conduct, material for playspace monitors and a directory of Bay Area rope groups.