Educator

As a touring artist, Kowalsky commonly offers Guest Workshops and Master Classes in a variety of techniques, skills and practices, including Irish Dance, Modern & Contemporary, Contact Improv, Inversions/Handstands, Choreography/Composition, Dance Acrobatics, and some specialty classes such Jumps, Leaps, Turns, Aerial Silks and Lyra, and Dance on Film.

Kowalsky teaches in the private sector at Dutchess School of Performing Arts, and comes in as Guest Artist for series, intensives and short visits (including the Studio School of Dance in New Orlando, LA, Berkshire Pulse in Great Barrington, MA, Movement from Center in Roxbury, NY.)

A unique honor, Leighann also teaches Contact Improv, specifically the work of Nita Little, in Nita Little’s name.

She has been a Guest Artist at the University/College Level (including UMass Amherst, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, University of Texas at Austin, & Fontys School in Tilburg, Netherlands) and has been an Adjunct Professor at Reinhardt University in Georgia.

Recent & Upcoming Class

Mondays, Advanced Contemporary, Weekly, Dutchess School of Performing Arts
Tuesdays, Beginner & Advanced Irish Dance, Weekly, Dutchess School of Performing Arts

Dec 11 & 18, 2025 - Adult Contemporary Class
Dutchess School of Performing Arts, Poughkeepsie, NY
Dec 7, 2025 - All Levels Contact Improvisation
Wildheart, Wallkill, NY
Nov 22 & Dec 6, 2025 - Advanced Partnering Technique
RogueWave, NYC
Oct 26, 2025 - All Levels Contact Improvisation
Hudson Valley CI, Kingston, NY
Fall Semester, 2025 - Guest Artist Reinhardt University
Walter Brandon Jolly Memorial Lecture Endowment
Jul 28 - Aug 3, 2025 - Contemporary Technique, Contact Improv
The Studio School NOLA, New Orleans, LA
July 7 - 19, 2025- Dance-Making, Partnering, Contemporary Technique
Berkshire Pulse, Great Barrington, MA
Mar 9, 2025 - Drawing & Sending, Contact Improv
Hudson Valley CI, Kingston, NY
Jan, 2025 - 3- Week Choreo/Comp Series
NOLA Dance Project, New Orleans, LA