Passeport pour la forme

Date
5 July 1984
Channel
France

Outdoors performance of ‘Dancing in the dark’. Kim lipsynchs the song near a burning campfire on a beach.

Cadence 3

Date
2 May 1984
Channel
France

Kim stands between two keyboard players singing ‘Dancing in the dark’ live to a pre-recorded backing track: a slightly altered instrumental version of the song.

Platine 45

Date
4 April 1984
Channel
France

Kim lipsynchs “Dancing in the dark”. Images of her have been mixed with images of flames. She is backed by her brother Ricky on keyboards.

Thommy’s Popshow

Date
17 December 1983
Channel
ZDF (Germany)

Kim sings ‘Love blonde’ and ‘Dancing in the dark’ live to a recorded backing track. ‘Love blonde’ is an instrumental version of the single version, whereas ‘Dancing in the dark’ sounds very different musically. Kim is backed by her own band. They are performing in front of a live audience.

Crackerjack

Date
2 December 1983
Channel
UK

Kim lipsynchs to ‘Dancing in the dark’. She is backed by two keyboard players and a drummer. The stage is lit mainly in purple. Kim is wearing a blue shirt, a black jacket and black trousers.

Razzmatazz

Date
11 November 1983
Channel
ITV (UK)

Kim lipsynchs to ‘Dancing in the dark’. She is backed by a keyboard player and a saxophe player. They are performing in front of a live studio audience. The ‘Razzmatazz’ logo is visible in the background.

 

Eldorado

Date
7 November 1983
Channel
DR (Denmark)

Kim Wilde and a band of three members appear on stage in the Danish programme Eldorado to mime to ‘Dancing in the dark’. They are surrounded by a dancing audience. The stage background features a laser show.

WWF Club

Date
4 November 1983
Channel
WDR (Germany)

Kim and her band do a lipsynch performance of ‘Dancing in the dark’ in front of a live studio audience filled with adults and young children. Remarkably, Steve Byrd plays keyboards during this performance. At the end of the performance, Kim receives a bunch of flowers from a robot.