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.
I would like to vote for Amir.
christen and june wre asome
my vote is AK SQUARE, YOU GUYS ROCK and dance awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE U WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU AND YOUR GROUP IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
no Amir was no the best Aksquared rules!!!!!!! wooooooooo
I vote for Arjang! He definitely has the style and grace you need for Hip Hop. 01 rules!
YOU ARE TOTALLY COOL AMIR AND WE LOVE YOUR OUTFITS!!!
i love jade so much she is awesome man i am so jealous of her…. go jade keep doing what your doing. oh and by the way im 13.
please vote for AK square and christine and june!=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)
how do you vote.
i love your dance moves AK squared! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
jade you are awesome but, i don’t know how to vote.
I vote for AK Squared!!!!!! Their fantastic.
I MESSED UP AK SQUARED WIN IN WIN WIN WINWIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
Amir was the best he really made me speechless he should really win
And christen and june wre relly fantastic
I vote for Amir I love your moves
amir you’re awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amir was the best
I hope Christine and June win! they dance how they inspire themselfs and be themselfs. Go Christine and June!!! <3
WE LOVE YOU JADE SO MUCH YOU KNOCKED US OUT OF NEWWW YORKKKKKKKKK.
YOU ARE TOTALLY NUMBER 1
Definitely the 1st one. His martial arts style mixed with Hip Hop was out of this world. I hope he wins. I vote for 01!
Aksquared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RULES WOW WOO YEAH COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amir was really the best!!!!!!! He was really awesome
I vote for Amir , he is wonderful
IT WOULD BE COOL IF I WAS THERE LIVE ON BACK STAGE,WITH U JADE……..I CAN JUST DREAM IT THROW MY HEAD……………………………….
……………………….JADE,03
I vote for AK Square ♥♥♥.
Amir was the best
ak , you guys rule
i think jade is the best at dancing i love jade
Amir he was awesome
I love AKsquared!!!!!!!!!!
casey and sam rocked so did jade, ak squared, amir, arjang, and christine and june ahhhhhhhhh i cant decide im Helena im 10 yrs. old i live in california and i cant decide helpppppppppppp dont acually help me i can decide on my own my name is Helena ( a.k.a HeyHay ) and i aprove this message peace lol
i vote for A.K Squared
AKSQUARE ROCKED THE DANCE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I vot AKSQUARED you guys inspire me with your teamwork and all your inspiration with you trying your best and do what you love to do DANCE! PLZ WIN!
Amir was soo awesome i vote Amir i <3 you
sam&casey were very great dacers out there.
jade i hope you win, and you are the best young dancer i have ever seen.
i vote for AK squared
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YOU GUYS WERE THE BEST IM VOTG FOR U I WANT TO DANCE LIKE YOU
JADE! JADE! JADE! JADE! JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i hope AK 2 win
Hi Amir, I hope you win you are cool
i vote for aksquare,there great!
AK2! AK2! AK2! YOU NEED TO WIN! YOU NEED TO WIN! YOU NEED TO WIN!
i liked the first one his name started wit an a i forgot his name lol i vote him he was pretty good
We loveee AKsquared.
I vote AK SQUARE to win
OMG I <3 CASEY & SAM..JADE………ARIJANG….AKsquared……AND CHRISTINE & JUNE!!!!!!!!!YOU GUYS ROCK!!!GOOD LUCK!!!!!!
amir you are amazing