A friend took a private lesson at the recent Taboe Camp, focussing on giving and receiving pressure through the hand when pivoting - giros, ochos etc.
Is there a place for (varying) pressure on the open hand, so providing (extra) impetus to the follower for pivots?
I've been through probably well over a dozen books on dance. Most have sections on Leading and Following. Almost ALL of them use the terms "push" and "pull" . They ALL qualify their use of the terms to say, in one fashion or another, this does not mean "shove" or "yank".
Some of these texts, all of which are in English, include tango, and it is sometimes described as Argentine Tango.
Accepting that AT is so different than other dances that the basics don't apply would be a mistake, I think. There is plenty of material that has convinced me that the posture, the walk, etc, are common elements that have been taught for decades and perhaps as long as there has been dancing between partners in large towns where different classes of people developed.
You may perhaps have learned that the woman supplies the energy to rotate the man in the giro/molinete. If you accept this, you may want to ask yourself how she moves the man and what you want to call that action, if not pull, push, or some synonym; ditto for the calesita, only more so.
Single axis turns, I think, have a similar dynamic to that of the calesita and giro.
There is a similar exchange, or giving of energy, in producing a boleo, if you accept that it is something that isn't done as an adornment.
With "pivots" we get into more of a gray area.
A clarification of the term might be helpful.
But then the whole idea of not whether, but how much energy we exchange with our partner is very much a sliding scale as far preferences.
