Maher lifted her partner Alan Bersten and performed the traditional lift from the film.

Ilona Maher is having the time of her life.

The Olympic bronze medalist was given the chance to put her own spin on the famous Dirty dance lifting while giving a salsa with Dancing with the stars pro partner Alan Bersten. Maher and Bersten danced to the 1987 classic, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes.

But everyone who has seen it Dirty dance — and probably many who don’t know — know that that particular number is accompanied by an impressive lift, a lift that Baby (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny (Patrick Swayze) spend the entire film trying to get right.

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Not to be outdone, Bersten and Maher introduced three lifts into their salsa routine. Bersten first lifted Maher into a flip, which she then repeated by lifting him up, something fans online had been clamoring for since the song choice was announced.

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But Bersten decided that no one would put Ilona in a corner, and he gave her a moment to shine, taking her through the film’s iconic overhead lift. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba praised the sequence after their dance, noting that it was part of Maher’s journey to reshape the conversation about womanhood.

Maher admitted that it was quite a challenge to submit herself to such a movement. “I’m never really lifted up, so it’s tough for me,” she said. “It was a lot of trusting him to be lifted up. It was scary, but fun.”

The couple received a respectable score of 21 from the judges for their routine, bringing their total over two weeks to 39 points.

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