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Castle Walk is a dance originated and made famous by Vernon and Irene Castle. The Castle Walk became popular through its introduction into the Tango.

In this dance, the man continually goes forward and the lady backward. In order that the lady may be properly guided about the room, the man's arm encircles her just under her arm, while her left hand rests on the man's right arm. The position of the lady's right arm and the man's left arm is high, with their hands clasped, see the illustration.^[1]

The man starts forward with his left foot and the lady backward with her right, simply walking with gliding steps keeping on the toes, one count of the music to each step. This step is continued to the end of the room, where a large circle is begun, which is gradually made smaller and smaller, until it is ended by whirling completely around three times, to three counts of the music and then dip.^[1]

The Castle Walk may be varied by describing the figure eight or zig-zag instead of the large circle.^[1]

To make the three whirls is rather a difficult matter, as it must be done very rapidly to accomplish

a complete revolution to one beat of the music, but with a little practice it is soon learned.^[1]

This is a walking step

of direct advance and retreat, not used to move to the

side. The couple are in closed position, the woman,

therefore, stepping backward as the man steps forward,

and vice versa. The advancing foot is planted in fourth

position, the knee straight, the toe down so that the ball

of the foot strikes the floor first. The walk presents an

appearance of strutting, although the shoulders are held

level, and the body firm; a sharp twist that punctuates

each step is effected by means of pivoting on the supporting

foot. The shoulder and hip movements that originally

characterised the "trot" are no longer practiced.

References

External links

• Dance History Archives

• Sir Philip Sassoon
• Sir Philip Sidney game
• Sir Philip Stapleton
• Sir Philip Stephens
• Sir Philip Wodehouse
• Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet
• Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet
• Sir Philip Woodhouse, 1st Baronet
• Sir Phillip Reginald Lynch
• Sir Phillip Reginald Lynch KCMG
• Sirpi Balasubramaniam
• Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet
• Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet Cloughgrenan
• Sir Pierce Lacy, 1st Baronet
• Sir Pierce Thomas Lacy, 1st Baronet
• Sir Piers Jacobs
• Sir Pierson Dixon
• Sir Pitti Theagaroya Chetty
• Sir P. N. Krishnamurti
• Sir Ponnambala Thyaga Rajan
• Sir P. Rajagopalachari
• Sir P. Ramarayaningar
• Sir P S Sivaswami Iyer
• Sir P.S. Sivaswami Iyer
• Sir PS Sivaswami Iyer