Sacramento Ballet

"Going for The Nutcracker has become a tradition. Year after year it doesn't disappoint! If you've never been and are waffling, just go you wont regret it. It's worth paying extra for the closer seats in my opinion, but I'm sure any seat will do! I've been lucky to get good opening night seats every yr I've went. =>) Live orchestra, and they're incredible!"

"These were the words I heard from director Laico: "She's not good for ballet, she puts her daughter to learn football, because she'll never study here again...there's no clinic for treatment here, her daughter came limping into the performance, like that oh !" and he imitated how she was walking at the presentation, in the room next to the reception, where he was talking to me. There , on the moment, was no class movement in the corridors. It was simply horrible. I felt the discrimination firsthand. How after 6 years, do they treat a child this way? She had had knee surgery, and the doctor allowed her to do ballet after some recovery time, but sometimes she had pain. I asked the director Laico, if she could participate in the show on a weekday, and he friendly said : yes. But after the holidays, I went to reorganize myself to enroll, and Sara told me that she needed to do class 2 again. I tried to find out in person, Sara shouted at me at reception, justifying that she would not be able to participate in the school, and if she wanted to participate, she would never go to class 3, soon after she declared: "you embarrass me". I asked to speak to the Laico, Director, to find out exactly what was happening, I wanted to know more details, when I was attacked with these words: "your daughter will never study here again, why don't you put her in football? She has no conditions to be a ballet student here, because this is a serious academy, and please: Get out! He opened the door for me to go. The next day I returned, and a few hours ago I had given my opinion in the review. He paid attention to me and asked me to take it off, and I, at the same time, promised to take it off if he paid attention to the case, or at the most talked to the student, my daughter, as a teacher and director. Even though she was in pain, she wanted to participate with her class friends who had known each other for a long time! At the very least, she would have to receive a polite approach: Manu, how was your recovery?! Congratulations on participating, you will need to take class two because you are on medical leave..., you know, as a civilized teacher. That never happened, so here is my review."

"Today Nutcracker show was fantastic. The last time I saw the Nutcracker was forty-six years ago, when I was twelve. I hope to attend next year performance of the Nutcracker."

"Very elegant, classy, yet down to earth. Definitely coming back"

"I am a local teacher and I have wanted to take my class to see The Nutcracker for years. It has never been possible until this year. We were so excited to go and had everything ready when we were told the show was sold out! The flyer we received had no mention of having to call and make a reservation. We only received the notice how many people would be attending and that our payment was due by October 31, which it would have been. I really feel the Company either needs to offer more student matinee days as it is highly popular or have a lottery for schools who might otherwise not be able to go."