Balla Fire March 2013

Miss Balla Fire, cofounder of Sin Sisters Burlesque in Santa Cruz, has left a swath of creative destruction on the burlesque landscape since 2005, a natural progression from the trail of broken hearts and stolen souls from her more vernal and carefree days. Getting her start in the Mojave desert, she quickly learned that the best way to survive was to enter the body of her host organism, quietly feed off of it, reproduce, and then move on once she destroyed it. “Had I known back then how it worked,” she was once heard remarking, “I would do it all over again… only a lot sooner.”

Once she began performing, this ingrained pattern of aggressive invasion gave her the social grace to rapidly become one of the premier creative leads in the Bay Area’s rich burlesque scene. Featuring regularly as one of the Hubba Hubba Revue’s brightest stars, she has also stolen souls (and pants) at Red Hots Burlesque, Little Minsky’s, Barbary Coast Burlesque, and several other Bay Area shows.

In her hometown of Santa Cruz, the Sin Sisters reign supreme with one of the biggest and most elegant monthly burlesque shows in the country, on the second Saturday of each month. And they also beckon you to join their glamorous world by offering burlesque classes for all skill levels. For more information (or to get your pants back), see sinsistersburlesque.com.