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.
How do you vote?
AMIR!!!!!!he is sooooo awsome!!!!!;)
OMG Arjang is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot and go aksqared
CASEY AND SAM FTW!!! THEY ARE OFFICIALLY THE BEST<3
I loved Casey and Sam. I hope they win. They have fantastic chemistry between them and that boosts up their stability in their dancing:D
casey and sam love yall MUST win
I want to vote for ak,s
i vote for YOU JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AK SQUARED IF U DON’T VOTE FOR THEM THEN U DON’T CARE
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh my gosh i want ak suared to win or jade
I loved u AK2 u r amazing guyz I vote for u u are all amazing luv the outfits:D
we love u jade we hope u r the WINNER love u so much GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! luv grayson and chloe u r awsome and the best dancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and its amazing how young u r and so good of a dancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WE VOTE 4 U!!!
Hay ak square
I think AKsqared was great and they were really good!!!!!
GO AMIR
i like jade/amir/and casey and sam!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote for AKA sqaure, they work so well together and I think I really should wine.
AMIR ‘
MY SISTER SAYS JADEEE..
I SAY AMIRR
Hey yo yo peeps. Sofia and I like AKsqurd They’re So good at dancing and they’re so cute! Lalala I Also have a youtube channel named kellyandjaimie139 Please Subscribe if you vote for AKsqurd hope they win!!! ~Kelly Creveling
hey its sofia i just wanted to say Aksqurd should win like they are rrreeelllyyy GOOD vote for them dont vote for amir sorry vote for Aksqurd
NO WAY JADE STINKS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JADE GO GO GO AK SQUARED
Jade!!
YOU WELCOME JADE YOU EARNED IT YOU HAVE THE TALENT …….. TO DO IT AND BE IT CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE GENORISITY / TALENT / BEAUTY WAY TO……… GO … CAN I CALL YOU JADE AND YOU BE MY FRIEND ……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TALENT EVERY WHERE
I really like this conversation 🙂
AK2 they are #1 they should win with a side of win!
i LOVE casy and sam there so awsome none of the other dancing player is not as good as casy and sam
jaDE or a boy (airijan) ( i have knw idea how to spell his name) needs to wn
jadE beausepeople need to kno that 12 yearolds cAn win i have a lot in common with her dance is my life to
the boy because people need to relize that boys can dance to
ps dance is a sport
got to go finish watchin shake it up make your mark
i vote for jade! great dance move and i went to veatice her
I vote Jade, she soo cute
i like arjang
I think AKsquare should win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vote 4 christine and june you guys did a ood dance
Hi guys My name is Amy But you guys the most greatest dancers i ever saw…… i love yu guys
Hey yo yo peeps. Sofia and I like AKsqurd They’re So good at dancing and they’re so cute! Lalala I Also have a youtube channel named kellyandjaimie139 Please Subscribe if you vote for AKsqurd hope they win!!! ~Kelly Creveling
hey its sofia i just wanted to say Aksqurd should win like they are rrreeelllyyy GOOD vote for them dont vote for amir sorry vote for Aksqurd
sam and casey yall make a CUUUUUUUUUTE couple love yall
also casey&sam i love the school one soooo cool
jade is the best vote for her:) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please vote for jade not AK2
I AM MOST DEFINATLY VOTIN FOR AK SQUARED C:)
AKsquared rocked
LETS GO AMIR
I think Jade was awesome!!!!!!
AK SQUARD AND JADE
say i if your watching make your mark I
amir
i llllllllooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeee cassys dress
LETS GO AMIR LETS GO
O my goodness everybody who said that cassy and sam a bad i boooooooooooooo you cassy and sam rock there so much better than all those other dancers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Deal with that ok all you cassy and sam haters
awesome i love you jade todally voted for her good luck 🙂
casey and sam go girl and boy
Wow! Everybody is AMAZING!!! If I had to pick a favorite, it would be AK2! I hope they win but I wish everybody luck and the experience of their lifetime.
!!!!!GOODLUCK!!!!!