Make Your Mark: Cast Your Vote Now!
The five week audition period for Disney Channel’s Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off ‘Shake It Up’ Edition came to an end on August 3rd. More than 28,000 videos were submitted online showcasing talented young dancers from all over the United States. And now the real contest begins.
Screenshot from the Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off website, image copyright Disney
It’s time for Make Your Mark fans to make their voices heard by voting online for their favorite videos as the most liked auditions of the day. Videos with a STAR under them have been chosen as featured videos by a Disney.com editor, while videos with THUMBS UP have been chosen by fans as the most liked videos of the day. Videos with the STAR and THUMBS UP are the best of the best, as voted by Disney and Make Your Mark fans!
On August 19th, the first two of six semi-finalists will be chosen, followed by two more semi-finalists on August 26th, and the final two on September 2nd. The six finalists will fly to Los Angeles to compete in an epic television event on the Disney Channel, with the grand prize winner appearing as a featured spotlight dancer on an episode of Shake It Up!
Screenshot from the Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off website, image copyright Disney
The audition videos that were recorded at one of the five city events (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit) are easy to spot as the dancers are performing on a professional Shake It Up stage, complete with flashing lights and a shiny dance floor. The dancers are having such a great time that it made me think, wouldn’t Shake It Up be an excellent addition to the Hollywood Studios Theme Park at the Disney World Resort?
If Make Your Mark were to become a new attraction at Hollywood Studios, it could be a dance competition similar to the American Idol Experience with dancers performing in a series of elimination rounds leading up to a grand finale. Or it could be an interactive, Disney Quest-style attraction utilizing green screen technology so that a dancer’s performance on the stage could be digitally integrated into an episode of Shake It Up. Then Disney could offer the dancer a customized video of their simulated Shake It Up appearance – for a price, of course!
Screenshot from the Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off website, image copyright Disney
As an aside, I was annoyed by the Make Your Mark website tonight when I was browsing the audition videos and ended up having to sit through a video ad for Best Western. I’ve never seen non-Disney video ads on Disney sites before, and the ad intrusion wasn’t only out of place, it was illogical. The bulk of the Make Your Mark visitors are kids (8-16 years old) who are there to check out their own videos and vote for their favorites. I’d like to think they’re not the ones choosing the hotel chain for their next family vacation.
sam cassy ak2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Jane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$ you is gonna win
ARJANG!ARJANG!ARJANG!ARJANG!ARJANG!ARJANG!
vote 4 me 🙂
we vote for aksquared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we thooght you were really great on stage, we hope you win!!!!!!
ak squared booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Arjang ualso di great
I VOTE 4 JADE
I loved all of the performances! But i Have to Choose Jade!<3
Shout Out to me jade!?(:
AKsquared duh their awesome!!!!!! 🙂
jade yhu did really good i hope yhu win
Jade you might not know me but you sound like an amazing friend!!!Vote Jade!GOOD LUCK!
I vote for JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aksquared please vote for them!!!!!!!!!
no amir is better
if you not watching make your mark WATCH IT NOW! THIS IS THE BEST WATCH IT!!!!!!
jade yhu did really good ihope yhu win
i like the most the four girls they are alsome there clothes are nice.
Christine and June Ann you guys did awsome! I LOVED YOUR DANCE, IT WAS JUST SO ACCTIVE AND EXCITING!
VOTE CASEY AND SAM THEY R GREAT
please vote for jade and the aksqurd
I vote for Arjang hes BEAST!!!!!
amir is good
AK2 ALL THE WAY THEY WERE AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;)
I really like jade and AK squared but i would best vote for both.
He is SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME i LUV HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
AK SQUARED!!!!!!!!!!
Aksquare ! Theey Rocck 🙂
i want to vote for ak
thats whats up javique
Jade your skills are awesome we love it!!!!! You are friggin cool ppl i love it wen u rock on!
Vote for Jade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vote for casey and sam there dance was awesome they also got 1st place and 29 ponits
nice dancing amir i am going to vote fore you and a square your kind of cute
Amir has skills
vote 4 jade
Go ak sqared!you all did a great job!your awesome
that was a nice performce from everyone. im only going to pick 5 but if i had to pick a favorite it would be amir/jade/ and casey and sam for the first round.
jade
Love you AKsquared i hope you guys win
i lovelove love ak squared
Amir you rock you should be in first place
jade u rock and you are original
Amir rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! vote 4 amir he rocks
i vote for jade cuase i think she is a great dancer.
i love disney i can sing & act plz make me famous :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote for Amir i love him you rock and i also love AK2 you rock!
ak2 rocks
that was a nice performce from everyone. im only going to pick 5 but if i had to pick a favorite it would be amir/jade/ and casey and sam for the first round
i love you amir u ruleee