Dance into the Light is the sixth solo studio album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 21 October 1996 in the United Kingdom by Face Value Records.

[2] It features guest backing vocals from some of Collins' touring accompanists, including Arnold McCuller and Amy Keys.

23 on the US Billboard 200 and was Collins' poorest-selling album at the time (only 2002's Testify and 2010's Going Back sold fewer copies and charted lower).

[4] After putting down some early ideas while touring, Collins did not revisit the new material until he started work on a new album in his home in Switzerland, at the end of 1995.

[4] In a contrast to his usual method of songwriting, Collins deliberately wrote the songs on the album with greater use of the guitar and less on keyboards.

This marked a change as for Both Sides he found himself "living, breathing and sort of dying" with the material and recorded and produced the album himself.

He wished to return home while making the album, so a mobile studio owned by Sting was used to allow recording on location.

[9] Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album "his polyrhythms are surprisingly stiff for a drummer, which sinks all of the more experimental tracks.

Entertainment Weekly critic David Browne wrote, "Despite the sonic overhaul, the music feels less experimental than it does derivative.

The world-music tracks are, ironically, watered-down versions of the work of his former band mate Peter Gabriel, and 'Wear My Hat' is an outright Xerox of Paul Simon's 'I Know What I Know', but with cutesy lyrics about groupies."