A novel by Caryl Phillips

A novel by Donald Thomas

A 1949 film based on a play by Howard Dietz, who co-wrote songs with Arthur Schwartz

Dancing in the Dark, a 1986 Italo Disco song by Mike Mareen

A novel by Joan Barfoot

Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song), a Bruce Springsteen hit song released on his 1984 album Born in the U.S.A.

A 1995 made-for-TV-movie starring Victoria Principal of Dallas fame

A 1992 (?) jazz album by Fred Hersch

An album released in 2004 by Tierney Sutton

A novel by Mary Jane Clark

Dancing in the Dark (Jessy song), a song by Jessy De Smet, a Belgian pop artist

Dancing in the Dark (Kim Wilde song), a 1983 song by Kim Wilde

Dancing in the Dark (Schwartz-Dietz song), a 1931 song by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, featured in the film The Band Wagon

In philosophy, "dancing in the dark" refers to any situational optimism, albeit leavened by physically-construed events, that is self-referentially seen as a way for the Id to manifest itself