About

About Us

We are a small & determined group of women who are dedicated to bringing the art & sport of belly dance to the Central Kenai Peninsula.  We started our dance troupe in August, 2018 in the attic of the Soldotna United Methodist Church (thank you, Church, & PTL!) and have been steadily building up our troupe ever since.  

Typical of both Alaskan women & belly dancers, we are ladies who fish, grow gardens, work in the community, volunteer, hike, raise kids, blog, teach Sunday School, do pilates, respect our spouses, make soaps & creams, hassle our elected officials, raise money, care for those in need, create art, do secretarial work, preserve local food, take classes, make music, make peace, & fiercely love our tribes! We are, quite simply, a lot of fun to hang out with!

About Belly Dance

Make no mistake, belly dancing is a sport & an art that works with the feminine form.  This dance is a glorious way for any woman to connect with her body, mind, & soul . . . getting them to sync up & harmonize together.  It is a dance that utilizes complex movements of the core muscles to bring a piece of music to visual life.   

Belly dance is good for women who are in the process of accepting their bodies, building up their own self-confidence, getting over a loss, going through an adjustment, trying to get their groove back, searching for their own authentic voice, or looking for an empowering sisterhood.  This is a sport of cooperation rather than competition, of connection rather than isolation.  Through the belly dance experience, women fill up their own reservoirs with rejuvenating energy so that they can bring positive energy back into the world.

About our Logo

In our belly dancing research, we kept running into this symbol called the "Hamsa" or the hand.  If you google "Hamsa" you will see that it looks like a beautifully decorated hand with an eye.  The eye looks out for you, offering you protection.  The hamsa brings you happiness, luck, health, & good fortune.

Since we are northern dancers, we made some modifications.  It's cold up here, so we decided to create a "Mittsa", or a mitten with a decorated eye.  If you look closely, you will see that the pupil is actually a design of Alaska, our beautiful home.  Going out, you will see that the eye is placed inside of a red heart.  The red heart symbolizes love, as in self-love, sisterly love, love of community, and love of the whole world that is expressed through our dance.  Next, you will see that our mitten is a teal green, which symbolizes the color of Alaska's glacial water, a water that brings ancient glacial waters (& thus ancient secrets) back to life in the rivers, lakes, and eventually the ocean.

There is a snowflake on our logo to represent our cold climate (no, we were not stealing from the movie "Frozen").  Surrounding our design is a chain of coins, which represents music coming to life through movement & dance.  We chose lavender as a background because we view this as the color of wealth & resources.

We went through three names of our group before finally deciding on "Gaia's Frozen Dancers".  "Gaia" means earth.  We chose "frozen" because we are northern people.  And we decided on "dancers" rather than "daughters" so that we could be all-gender inclusive.