Pulled together in a studio, a group of teenagers and younger kids exhibit virtuoso performances of breakdancing. A short that was born as a test for a feature film about breakdance; a project then abandoned by Kowalski himself.

"Breakdance Test is probably one of the first films dedicated to this phenomenon. At the beginning of the 80s in New York, there was disco music, punk rock, jazz, and rap was beginning to become known. I wanted to make a film about musical movements that were on the rise during this period. I would meet with several young people, put two 16mm cameras in a studio, and I would try to grasp the new body movements that these kids were making. I wanted to see if I could make something good out of it, so I considered the film as a test, a 'breakdance. test.' Rap and breakdance were both part of the street culture, but had nothing to do with my culture: it was too young a movement for me and I considered it somewhat annoying. The film is the fruit of my infatuation with pop culture, but if we think about it, is not my culture: I wanted to make a film about something that interested me, but that at bottom I didn't like."