An especially visual variation of the Sawing-in-Half using a spectator from the audience.
A portable version of the classic Bryce Screens - an illusion for producing an assistant from behind a set of screens.
The magician pretends to let his audience see how he produces his assistant. But when the production is made, although the audience saw the assistant crawl into the box, she is gone and a man produced instead.
An assistant vanishes from atop a thin pedestal. She reappears inside a curtained cabinet. She disappears from the cabinet and reappears at the back of the venue.
The magician lies on a table under several hanging swords. An assistant chooses strings tied to the swords. Each string drops a different sword and all swords will miss the magician's body except for one which will plunge through his chest. The assistant chooses all the safe swords and the magician is spared.
An assistant enters a beer barrel and is impaled with multiple rods. The rods are removed and she emerges unharmed.
In this illusion, a drawing comes to life. It's a 21st century sawing-in-half illusion without assistants or boxes.
The assistant is systematically taken apart into seven pieces. Each piece remains alive and active throughout the routine.
The assistant climbs into a box. The box is divided into 5 pieces by moving pieces from the top of the structure to the bottom. The assistant then reappears in the new location completely unharmed.
Blades and spears penetrate a pyramid leaving an assistant inside completely unharmed.