Dancing in the Dark is a popular American song with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced by John (Jack) Barker and the dancer Tilly Losch in the Broadway revue The Band Wagon in 1931, and published that year by Harms. The first widely known recording was made by Bing Crosby on August 19, 1931, with a studio orchestra directed by Victor Young. It stayed six weeks on the pop charts, peaking at number three. The song returned in the 1953 MGM film The Band Wagon, where Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse perform it as an orchestral ballet in Central Park, with choreography by Michael Kidd and orchestration by Conrad Salinger. It is part of the Great American Songbook and is associated with jazz and swing. Later recordings include versions by Artie Shaw (1941), Jo Stafford (1955), Ray Conniff (1956), Sarah Vaughan (1957-58), Charlie Parker with strings, Cannonball Adderley, Frank Sinatra on Come Dance with Me! (1959), Tony Bennett, Bill Evans, Johnny Mathis and Diana Krall (2001).
