LEGO Art

Keith Haring - Dancing Figures

Five freestanding brick figures that actually move, and that's the whole magic.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 31216 · 2025

Pieces1,773

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number31216

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The verdict

Most LEGO Art sets are flat mosaics you hang like a poster, so I love that this one breaks the mold and gives you five 3D figures caught mid-dance.

The angled, curvy building is genuinely clever and the color pops off the shelf. My honest caveat is that once you've built two figures, the techniques start repeating, and $119.99 for something with no minifigs and no printed parts asks a bit of faith. If you love Haring or you want art that doesn't just sit in a frame, this one's a real joy.

Best for: Art lovers who want display pieces with movement, not another flat brick mosaic

The full review

What it is

This is the LEGO® set I keep pointing people toward when they tell me LEGO Art bores them. Almost every set in the line is a flat brick mosaic you build panel by panel and hang like a framed poster, and honestly a lot of them are more meditation than building. Dancing Figures throws that out. You get five separate 3D figures frozen mid-dance, arms flung out, one caught in a full backbend, all in Keith Haring's fat black outlines and loud primary colors. Designer Milan Madge built them loose instead of locking them onto a canvas, which means they really do seem to jump off the wall, and you can hang them frameless or clip each one to a color-coded stand and stage them however your shelf allows. For 1,773 pieces it captures that graffiti energy shockingly well given it's all standard bricks bent into curves and angles.

The catch

Here's where I'll be straight with you. Building one figure over an hour or two is a real delight, a little tricky in places with some advanced angle work and a few genuinely confusing instruction steps, but rewarding. Building the fifth one is a different feeling, because most of the techniques that create those wild angles and elegant curves get reused figure to figure. The uniqueness fades. Then there's the money. At $119.99 you're paying about 6.8 cents a piece, which isn't outrageous, but there are no minifigs and not a single printed or stickered element in the whole box, so every bit of the visual payoff comes from the shapes and colors you assemble yourself. And those signature thin black movement lines that trail off the figures feel delicate once they're on, so this isn't a set you'll want to keep bumping or dusting roughly.

Who it's for

So who's this really for. If you're a Haring fan, or you just want wall art that has actual dimension and personality instead of another flat mosaic, grab it without much hand-wringing, the community clearly agrees with a 4.8 out of 5 on Brickset. It's also a lovely one to build socially, since it ships with five separate instruction booklets so a few people can each take a figure at the same table. If you live for dense engineering, minifig-packed playsets, or you want the absolute best dollar-per-brick value, this won't be the one that wins you over. But as a piece of pop art you made with your own hands, it's got more charm than almost anything else in the Art line, and it earns its shelf space.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build goes figure by figure, five in total, each with its own booklet. You start each one with a fairly conventional core and then things get interesting fast, because the poses come from angled construction that leans hard on Plate Angled 2 x 2, hinge plates and jumper plates to push limbs into those breakdancer contortions. Curves get faked beautifully with rows of curved slopes forming the outlines. That first figure feels inventive and a little challenging, with a couple of obtuse steps where you'll double-check the instructions. The catch is that figures two through five recycle a lot of the same moves, so the sense of discovery tapers off even though each final pose is distinct.

On parts, this box is quietly a treasure. There's really only one quasi-new mold, the Technic Beam 1 x 3 Thick with Center Axle Hole, showing up five times in white. The recolors are the real story: 42 trans-clear Plate Round 1 x 1 with Hollow Stud and Underside Clip, 84 black curved bricks plus corner pieces doing all the outlining, 32 yellow Brick Special 1 x 2 Rounded with Center Bars, and a pile of wedge plates and tiles in bright green, pink, orange, medium azure and yellow, over 20 new color variants in all. Several appear in only a set or two elsewhere. There are no printed or stickered pieces at all, so if you're a parts hoarder chasing colorful recolors, this is one of the better LEGO Art boxes to raid.

Fun facts

01Keith Haring got his start drawing dancing figures, crawling babies and barking dogs in white chalk on empty black subway ad panels in 1980s New York.
02His dancing figures grew out of the emerging hip hop and club scene, and the upside-down and backbending poses are meant to read as breakdancers in motion.
03Unlike almost every other LEGO Art set, this one skips the flat framed mosaic entirely and gives you five freestanding 3D figures you can pose and rearrange.
04It ships with five separate instruction booklets on purpose, so several people can each build a figure at the same table.