In 1842, she made a success in the pantomime ballet Max och Emma by Sophie Daguin with music by A. F. Schwartz, and in La fille mal gardée by Jean Dauberval.
In 1846–47, she made a study trip to take lessons by August Bournonville in the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.
Upon her return to Stockholm in 1847, she was appointed premier dancer (ballerina), a position she kept for the duration of her career.
During the mid 19th-century, Charlotte Norberg belonged to the stars of the Royal Swedish Ballet and "during the late 1840s and the entire 1850s, she was very celebrated within the art of dance among the Stockholm audience.
[2] Charlotte Norberg also gave lessons and instructed her own students in the Bournonville technique.