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Kaina Quenga is a true ambassador of Aloha in New York City. She is devoted to sharing and perpetuating Polynesian dance and culture on the east coast and performs widely as a freelance Polynesian dancer in New York. She has spent the past five years teaching Hawaiian song and dance to students at Concourse House Day Care in the Bronx. She also currently teaches Tahitian dance throughout New York City and she is one of Brooklyn Arts Council's Folk Feet Dance Workshop teaching artists. In Hawai'i, Kaina was trained by Hilo’s famed kumu hula (hula teacher) Johnny Lum Ho of Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua and she also danced with Tihati Productions on her native Big Island. She is skilled in native Hawaiian language as well as in the art of traditional Hawaiian lei making.