Make Your Mark: Cast Your Vote Now!

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.

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3,222 Responses to “Make Your Mark: Cast Your Vote Now!”

  1. Diego says:

    I want Arjang to winnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!

  2. lauren says:

    JADE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND DANCES LIKE IT NOBODYS BUSSINESS VOTE FOR JADE OR ELSE 😛

  3. ashley says:

    iii lllooovvveee ttthhheee aaakkk SQUARE

  4. Mikayla and Annalisa says:

    JADE,AMIR, AND AK SQUARE ARE TOTALLY COOL AND NEED 2 WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT EVERYONE IS GREAT AND YOU ARE GREAT DANCERS!!!!!!!!

  5. david hastings says:

    i vote for a k squared

  6. curley says:

    amir the best

  7. joshua says:

    christen and june were on fire danceing

  8. areeza says:

    Go AKsquared you rock.I wish i could meet you and Seleana Gomez,i’m her biggest fan ever when Wizards of waverly place is on i run all the way to the tv an d always wish i could meet you but if you do i’ll scream and might faint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. cierra says:

    amir is the best at everything

  10. Emily and Jayden says:

    AKsquared I like your flexibility and matching outfits, hope you win the competition

  11. Gabby says:

    AKsquare rocks

  12. Sia says:

    I love Jades dancing its so cool
    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Andrea says:

    I vote for Arjang!

  14. joshua says:

    chisten and june rockkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

  15. jayda says:

    do it win fight score gggggggggggggggooooooooooooo ak sq and jade chrisine june and amir

  16. Genna says:

    christen and june where awesome they should win !!!!!!

  17. shadow says:

    amir the amazing dancer

  18. megan says:

    i vote for Ak squared i love them

  19. kezia says:

    i really hope at AK2 wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i`m really BIG FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY VOTE IS THE AK2 TEAM YOU ROCK

  20. Rina says:

    AK SQUARE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  21. amya says:

    vote for jade i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you jade you rock

  22. Char says:

    AK SQUARE is cool and they are great dancers. I hope they win. Go go!

  23. sally says:

    amir ami9 rocks

  24. joshua says:

    christen and june made a great team when they first performed.

  25. olga says:

    i would vote for ak squared or casey and sam

  26. Buddy says:

    My daughter loooooves Hip Hop…and Arjang (01) taught her some new moves just watching. He’s great!

  27. sammie says:

    go amir

  28. joshua says:

    they supported every one very fantastic i loveeeeeeeeeeee christen and june.

  29. sammie says:

    i vote for amir he is amazing at everything about dancing

  30. jayda says:

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkk squared im vote for jjjjjjjaaaaaaaaaaadddddddeeeee voting and amir totally christine and june because they made there mark

  31. Sia says:

    I hope Jade win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  32. amber and jestiny says:

    hey we love jade and we also the number 0ne fan of u WE LOVE SHAKE IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    and the way you dressup im also gettin ur fashoin kneehigh sneakers and cc your little borther cool and rocky you and your bother is cool to bye can you add me jestiny the one with the pool

  33. Emily says:

    I think AKsquared well 1 is because there so awesome and if not christine and june

  34. sherry says:

    Definitely 01!!!!! This is about Hip Hop………not jazz. He’s got what it takes!

  35. alyssa says:

    GO AK SQUARE…..my name is ALYSSA also…wuhoo….YALL DID GREAT LOVE OUTFITS…….BIG FANZ…..VOTE AK2

  36. Mikayla and Annalisa says:

    YOU ALL ARE SO TALENTED AND GREAT DANCERS WE HOPE 1 OF YOU WIN!!!!!

  37. brihanna-brianna hannah says:

    we aiso love Arjang.

  38. joshua says:

    christen and june are so smart for thinking of those moves

  39. Rina says:

    NO GROUP BUT AK SQUARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

  40. Manna says:

    Amir is awsome@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  41. joshua says:

    christen and june had a great movements in the show they wight reeelllllly win

  42. Jessie says:

    Arjad. 01!

  43. Jessica says:

    06 rules!!!!!!!! Aksquared

  44. Juliana says:

    AKSQUARE is so one of the most talented girls I have ever seen I hope you win MAKE YOUR MARK ON DISNEY CHANEL PS YOU ARE REALLY AWESOME

  45. joshua says:

    christen and june were relllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool i love them

  46. isabel says:

    GO JADE!!!!!! YOU ARE MY IDOL

  47. Mikayla and Annalisa says:

    GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOO AKSQUARE YOU ARE SO TALENTED!!!!

  48. jhonet says:

    I love aksquared I love all of the things they did when they was standing on the trash cans I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu AKQUARED P.S I hope u get a lot of votes so u guys
    can win HAVE FUN

  49. Riley says:

    i vote for AK squared!!!!!!:):):):)