What does “Body support” mean?
Support of the partner's body is largely avoided in ballroom dancing. The exception would be "lifts" – often featured in some forms of swing dancing, and ballroom showdance presentations, but banned in ordinary ballroom competition and rarely seen in social dancing.
Definition adapted from Glossary of partner dance terms on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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