<P> On the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour, the song appeared intermittently during the encores . However, Springsteen for the first time played a number of music festivals during the routing, and "Dancing in the Dark" closed all of them: Pinkpop Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Glastonbury Festival, and Hard Rock Calling . When played live in recent years, the song features a harder, guitar - driven sound, with the distinctive synthesizer riff being supplied by Soozie Tyrell's violin . </P> <P> During the 2012 tour the song again became a regular at live shows with audience members selected to dance not just with Bruce, but with other band members too, especially new band member Jake Clemons . Springsteen family members appeared on stage for this song on occasion, with mother Adele doing the' Courteney Cox' dance at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia at the start of the tour, and daughter Jessica dancing on stage with Bruce in Paris on July 5 . </P> <P> Directed by Brian De Palma, the video was shot at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 28 and 29, 1984 . The first night was a pure video shot, the second was on the opening date of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour . Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed the song twice during that show to allow Brian De Palma to get all the footage he needed . The video is a straight performance video, with Springsteen not playing a guitar, allowing him to invite a young woman from the audience, performed by Courteney Cox, to dance along with him on the stage at the end . In September 1985, the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance . </P> <P> Released as a single prior to the album's release, the song spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (his highest charting song to date) in June--July 1984 (it was kept off the No. 1 spot by two songs, Duran Duran's "The Reflex" and Prince's "When Doves Cry"). It did reach No. 1 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart . It was also the first of a record - tying seven top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. "Dancing in the Dark" also held the No. 1 spot for six weeks on Billboard's Top Tracks chart . The song reached No. 1 on the Radio & Records CHR and AOR airplay charts . </P>

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