Saturday night, Sacramento Ballet invited guests to enjoy beer and a variety of appetizing performances choreographed by the dancers. Pairing beer with a highbrow type of entertainment is a welcoming event for theater lovers and beer drinkers. Brew It Up provided the beer that the dancers brewed themselves. The dancers mixed specialty blends to create a Heffeweisen, “Stumble-ina” and a Märzen Dark Beer, “Black Out Swan”. The gentlemen I sat next to would not put his cup down, at the end of each short performance he would clap for the dancers while holding his cup with his teeth. In the casual setting of their studio, seating was limited. Guests were stacked in the three rows of seating

  About a week ago, the Sacramento Press broke the story about Sacramento Ballet's director Kerri Warner stepping down from her position amidst the ballet's economic crisis. According to the Sacramento Bee, the ballet has now been forced to cancel the rest of its season in an effort to float the organization along through the rest of the year and emerge stronger next season.   "In addition to canceling its shows, the ballet cut three people from its staff of 12," said Debbie Arrington in her Bee article about the ballet. Phone calls by The Sacramento Press to the Sacramento Ballet were not returned.  However, Debbie Arrington of the Bee reported that the three-week-long Beer and Ballet