Sidewalk Dance Steps on Broadway

These are way fun! Pity I’m a terrible dancer. I’ve seen some passers-​by totally own the moves, though.

You know how in your own city, tourists annoy you and you avoid them and talk smack about them and laugh at them posing for pictures in front of stupid stuff that nobody cares about, but then when you go somewhere else, you do exactly the same things that you complain about? The Broadway Steps always annoyed me, because I’m salty like that. Although it is funny to watch people try to follow the ones that don’t actually work and get all confused. But now that I no longer live in Seattle I’m nostalgic about them, and I just read an article about the artist, Jack Mackie, who sued a photographer for using an image of the dance steps in an advertisement. Now, normally I’m not into copyright laws, but this is what Mackie said: «I do not want my work to be part of a coffee company’s ad campaign. I do not want my work to be part of a sales pitch for condos on Broadway. I do not want my work associated with banksters… all of which I have had to deal with. I want my work to be seen as it was intended and in the setting for which it was created — Seattle’s sidewalk on Capitol Hill, Broadway.» That, my friends, is awesome.

On a Saturday night after hitting up several local drinking establishments, I tried to do a couple of steps, and fell. The reason it gets three stars is that I have seen others do the same thing and it’s funny.
I did see one attractive couple dancing on the sidewalk and actually doing a really good job but they were just showing off not even using the steps. Fancy-​dancing bastards.
Moral of the story: Friends don’t let friends dance on footprints on the sidewalk drunk.

The dance steps in the sidewalk on Broadway make me happy!
(Though I understand that they are not actually useful as instruction — the shoe prints/​arrows are apparently randomly placed)

Great article about the steps at
Only one dance is made up. The rest are real steps that they collaborated on with the Arthur Murray Dance School. I never knew it was created as art. I always thought it was just advertising for the nearby dance school. But I’ve always thought they were FUN FUN FUN.