A founding member of Carolina Ballet says farewell to the performance stage

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A founding member of Carolina Ballet says farewell to the performance stage

By Leoneda Inge,

Published April 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM EDT

One of 鈥檚 founding members is wrapping up her career as a principal dancer at the end of the 2025 season. began with the company in 1998 and rose to the ranks of principal dancer a few years later. After 27 years with the company, Severin-Hansen will continue to work as an educator and director for two of Carolina Ballet's affiliate programs. She sits down with Leoneda Inge to discuss the joy she finds in dance and how it feels to say farewell to the performance stage.

Guest

Margaret 鈥淧eggy鈥� Severin-Hansen, principal dancer, director of the Ruth S. Shur Summer Intensive and co-chair of the School of Carolina Ballet

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 深夜福利's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 深夜福利 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 深夜福利鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 深夜福利's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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