Karen Gochnauer is a certified highland dance instructor and is currently teaching all ages of dancers through Bella Dance Academy. Karen has been studying modern, ballet, jazz, Pilates and Yoga for many years. She has performed at Caribou Capers, the Aurora Arts Festival, Treeline to Tundra and annually at the Robbie Burns night. She has performed in musicals for Ptarmigan Ptheatrics, the latest of which was South Pacific Karen first came to Yellowknife, over 10 years ago, as a geologist lured by work in the great northern wilderness.