[1][2] At the age of six, Brewer danced in Ngaire Keys's Black and Silver Ballet at the St. James Theatre in Wellington in 1939, when the Evening Post called her "an infant prodigy".
[3] Brewer performed by invitation for the US Marines at the Majestic Cabaret during the Second World War, and at the age of 15, was awarded a solo seal by the Royal Academy of Dance.
[1] Brewer's performance career ended when her father contracted her as partner and teacher to the Dorothy Daniels School of Dance.
[2] Brewer choreographed what has been described New Zealand's "first indigenous two-act ballet" Children of the Mist, and produced it with James Carney.
[2] Brewer collaborated with theatre director Richard Campion to exhibit Green Are the Islands with Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan.