When it comes to audiences, they are dancing for the judges/adjudicators.

Partners interact spontaneously, for fun, doing steps that are also enjoyable for them.

It's how a dance feels to you and your partner, not how it looks.

When a Follow does something different from what the Lead intended, he considers it a mistake, which is to be eliminated.

Flexibly adaptive. You value and accommodate to styles that are different from your own.

It has standardized steps and techniques; you need to know what technical details are expect to see.

Develop own personal style, different from others.

Working hard to imitate the shape of that standardized style.

Often based on what the Follow is doing at the moment, and what spontaneously occurs to the Lead.

Most decisions have been made by others, first in the syllabus of acceptable steps, then in the choreographed routine. You work mostly on style.