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.
jade all day great dancer
Arjang…..win baby win! VOTE FOR 01!
jade is going to win
!!!!!!!!!!I Love The AK Squared!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love AK square
jade should win
love all of you guys hope you win AK sqared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Sherry one of the voters is spanish i think and im spanish to but i like aksquared .vamos todos voten por aksquared y nadie mas wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooo los amo ciao,nos vemos mas tarde.
Definitely Arjang!!!! You rule!!!!!! 01
jadeeeeee is so awesome
I say Jade because she is a great and fantastic dancer
AK Square is really great!
I just want to say they all did a great job and kudos for making it as far as they did.
I luv the winners, mostly i luv christine and june also AKsquare GOOD LUCK GUYS! HOPE U HAVE FUN!!!!!
ARJAD……You are awsome. WIN…..Win! 01
i hope jade or amir wins because they are really good dancers and their moves went with their dances
i vote for jade
we love AK sqared an JADE
My family wants ARJAD, he is the best dancer! (01)
I love Amir moves
i really want them to win you guys are alsome
i vote for ak square
jade was cool and great
we like Jade an AK sqared
AK Square is the best. They should be the final winner.
AKsquared
yall are soo hot i have a facebook look at it inbox me if u have a facebook i vote AK squared woo
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I VOTE FOR JADE AND AMIR!!!!!!!!!!!THEY WERE GREAT DANCERS AND AWSOME MOVE SO I VOTE FOR JADE AND AMIR!!!
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AKSQUARED YOU RULE AND DANCE AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE YOU RROOCCKK.WIN THE COMPETITION.I LOVE YOU AND YOUR GROUP YOU ARE SUPER DUPER AWESOME >YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i love Casey and Sam i hope you win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will love them even if they lose.
AKsquared!!!!
christen and june gave it a good shot and i think they are relly going to winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
i heart shake it up. is cool and i like jade
go AK squared yall are the best my little brother likes the little ones.
You guys are all Winners…All of you made it to the top 6, And got to perform on National Television…And everyone did awesome…Congratulations to all!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AK SQUARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the juges are cute and great for the show.
christen and june will be great dancers when they grow up. And i will always love them.
Arjang is awsome . His kicks are epic. hope his martial arts are worth the competition
AK squared is awesome i vote for yall plus yall are hot.
Arjang !!!!!!!!!
i love Casey and Sam i hope you win!!!!!
Cuteness doesn’t make the cut…it’s the talent! Go Arjad ! Todos mis amigos hispanos, voten por Arjad 01)!
he idgs amir amir rocks
chirsten and june have a great present .And that is danceing.
Arjang win!!!!!!!!
amir rocks
i loved jades dancing could you come teach me
ARJANG1111 ARJANG11111 (01) It’s all about the Hip Hop!!!!!
jade is awesome