Mexican Wrestling Meets Burlesque
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Burlesque dancer Carolina Cerasola performs in front of Blue Demon Jr. luchador, traditional Mexican wrestler, at the Lucha Vavoom Cinco de Mayan! show at the Mayan Theater on Cinco de Mayo, May 5, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Performers prepare to go onstage at the Cinco de Mayan! show. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Luchadores, traditional Mexican wrestlers, perform at the Mayan Theater on Cinco de Mayo, May 5, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
A kitten with a whip at a Lucha Va Voom performance. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Lucha Vavoom combines elements of theatrical Mexican masked wrestling shows known as Lucha Libre with American burlesque. (Getty Images)
An aerial view at a Lucha VaVoom show. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Burlesque dancer Bonita La Belle strips out of a traditional mariachi musician suit at Lucha Vavoom's Cinco de Mayan! show. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: Bonita La Belledoes a different kind of hat dance for Lucha Vavoom's Cinco de Mayan! show. (Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 05: A great day for a smackdown: Cinco de Mayo celebrates the unlikely victory of 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the the much better-equipped French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 in Puebla, Mexico. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Lucha Libre is famous for its colorful masks, quick-start battles, and giant acrobatic leaps into and out of the ring. (Getty Images)
“<i>Lucha libre</i> represents a cool superhero style," says Rita D’Albert. "I love it; we don’t have anything like this in American pop culture.”
A full flock at Kinky Valentine. (Getty Images)