Most often ‘hanging’ refers to what a Follower will do with their arms, placing them around their Follower shoulders and neck, and placing their weight on top of their lead either through conscious action or being unaware that they’re doing it. Either way, ‘hanging’ of any sort is undesirable.
Pressure. Typically this refers to physiological compression against the dancers back with their partner’s forearm (lead) and/or their hand (follow). Pressure is done by both roles, usually in an unconscious manner to ‘hold’ their partner in place or to keep the partnership together so that they can ‘dance’ with each
Resistance. This employs the use of one’s arms, and hands to indicate a direction (from a leading perspective) or that one is responding to execute a piece of vocabulary (following). Sometimes this is referred to as Resistance Based Dancing, and is the polar opposite of Intention Based Dancing. See the
Rigid(ity). A very common state of holding one’s hands, arms, torso, and posture to achieve a certain visual line, look, or piece of vocabulary. It is usually brought on by fear, or the insistence to quickly execute technique, or inexperience or a lack of familiarity with Tango Intention. There is
