In an interview with Andreea Capitanescu for WASP – Working Art Space & Production Leśnierowska explains:
For years we have been experiencing in Poland an exodus of the most talented young artists – due to the lack of higher education programs in dance they left the country for international schools and simply had no reason to come back. There was no (and actually still there isn’t) any serious chance for regular professional dance life. The situation is slowly changing, you can now study dance also in the country, but still there is no substantial financial support for local artists (…), no serious infrastructure for dance has been developed (…) In this specific local landscape, establishing a place like our studio in Stary Browar, with its consequent artistic profile and interest in avant-garde choreography, the first regular dance venue and a platform of artistic dialogue, research, creation and choreographic reflection. Such endeavor must have become a bit schocking and with its radical change brought hope for some long-awaited normality to local community as well as to all those that left the country and would like to come back but did not had a real chance nor reason before.
Art Stations Foundation has also launched the Alternative Dance Academy which is a series of one-week researches and workshops held every two months. They invite renowned pedagogues and experts to lead intensive courses for artists from Poland. The culmination of each project is presenting results to the audience. These workshops also let the artists get to know each other and start creative collectives. Some od the experts invited were: Arkadi Zaides, Hooman Sharif, Jozef Fruček, Ria Higler, Chris Haring, Simon Aughterlony, Jonathan Burrows and Michael Schumacher.
One of the crucial initiatives at the Old Berewy is the Residency program launched in 2006. Two years after opening of the dance cetre, Art Stations Foundation started to search for emerging artists and support their on original performances. Each year three artists are given a scholarship to make their solo spectacles. Solo Projekt artists-in-residence list includes so far: Janusz Orlik, Anita Wach, Konrad Szymański, Dominika Knapik, Renata Piotrowska, Marcin Janus and Barbara Bujakowska, Tomasz Bazan, Karol Tymiński, Ramona Nagabczyńska, Małgorzata Haduch, Magda Przybysz, Aleksandra Borys, Anna Nowicka, Rafał Urbacki, Irena Lipińska, Iza Szostak, Aleksandra Ścibor, Marzena Krzemińska, Magda Ptasznik, Maria Zimpel, Agata Siniarska, Baśka Gwóźdź and Korina Kordova.
In 2008 Art Stations Foundation became a founding member of European Dancehouse Network (EDN) and one year later launched, together with 19 other partners, the 4-year multilevel EU modul-dance project. It aims to create optimum conditions for production by artists, dancers and choreographers throughout Europe in order to facilitate their mobility and promote the dissemination of their work. Up to now, the project has supported 52 choreographers and approximately 500 other artists, who've participated in international exchanges (among them, many Poles).
Since 2006 Leśnierowska has curated the section The Old Brewery New Dance at Malta as part of the Malta Festival in Poznań. The festival has already hosted such artists Jonathan Burrows, Boria Charmatz, Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy and Eszter Salamon. In 2008, in collaboration with Anna Hryniewiecka and Zamek Culture Centre she reactivated the Polish Dance Platform.
In the years 2011-2014 she was a member of the advisory programme board of the Warsaw Music and Dance Institute. Leśnierowska is also one of the curators assocciated in Aerowaves.
In 2013 she was one of the curators organising IDENTITY.MOVE! - Research Platform for Contemporary Dance in the Eastern Belt of the European Union. The program was set to create an international platform enabling young choreographers and dancers to exchange knowledge, inspiration and explore together practical and theoretical issues in contemporary dance. Artists participating in the project are from Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia. IDENTITY.MOVE! is coordinated by Goethe Institut Warsaw in cooperation with Centre for Culture Lublin, Obcanske sdruzeni Motus in Prague and the State School of Dance in Athens with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Leśnierowska works as an artistic coach of young choreographers in parallel with her own practice as a performer, dramaturge and performer for Polish and international artists (Janusz Orlik, Renata Piotrowska, Arkadi Zaides, Minimetal, Lia Haraki, Márta Ladjánszki, Jurij Konjar and others).