La Chica Boom/Xandra Ibarra is a performance artist, ecdysiast, and community organizer that explores Chican@ iconography, issues of race, gender and sexuality. Through the practice of ethnic drag, alternative dance, theatre, performance art, neo-burlesque, and clowning, La Chica Boom provides a biting satire that points to contemporary and historical escandalos.
In addition to touring North America as a solo performer and with the Fluffgirl Burlesque Society, she is the founder and producer of Kaleidoscope, An Annual National People of Color Cabaret, the first national event dedicated to cabaret performers of color in the U.S. Some of the venues where she has been featured include: The Yerba Buena Arts Museum (SF), Corio (NYC), One Eyed Jacks (NOLA), MondoHomo (ATL), The Moisture Festival (SEA), Burlesque Hall of Fame (Las Vegas), Tease-o-Rama (SF), and at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival (CAN).
"brilliant, hot and saucy"
- Annie Sprinkle
"piñata-fisting provocateur and performance phenom"
- SF weekly
"political and sexy at the same time"
- Seattle Gay News
