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.
LOVE U ARJANG! I LOVE U ARJANG! I LUV U ARJANG! VOTE FOR ARJANG ! VOTE FOR ARJANG! LOVE U ARJANG! LOVE!
LOVE !LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
everybody did good i’m gonna vote for arjang and amir
I luv Jade she totally rocks all yall people out there is so dumb to pick aksquare
Jade rocks good job
i am going to be mad!!!!!!!!!!!! if u dont vote for aksquqard please please please please vote for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am going to be mad!!!!!!!!!!!! if u dont vote for aksquqard please please please please vot for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
******AKSQUARED*****
HANDS DOWN THEY WERE AWESOME!!!!
They were perfect all around!!!!
I call them lil dream getters!!
who i vote for is aksquared they r the best dance group there like the last dance was totally awesome so girls and boys vote for aksquared they rule and they defiantly deserve to win they put there hardest work in all there dance moves hope they win !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched your routine here in Hawaii. I belive you’re the best and pray you’ll be NUMBER 1
I vote for Arjang
I Vote for Arjang!
amir was awsome i thought he put a lot of effort in to it.:)
O God I Mean Has These Dance Routines.Lol =)
I think Arjang Is Going 2 Win He Is Going 2 Win He Just Has This Dance Routines That Are To Die For Arjang You Are Ready 2 Make Your Mark!
Jade you did really good you did your best you rock.:)
I think Amir did really good he had a lot of self confident and he never gave up on his dream.:)
JADE YOU ARE THE BEST ,YOU ROCK GIRL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think AK Squared rocked and their moves told the best story!!!!!!!!!!
i love the ak squared they are so awesome i them to win gooooooooo ak squared 🙂
Casey and Sam should win. They really earned it and they are both such great dancers. I would love to see them on Shake It Up, ( Even though I am not really into it but would watch a eposode just to se them ).
Amire you are so cool i think u should win
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE AMIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i vote ak square because they had lots of enery and they brought it.
AK SQUARE I LOVE HOW YOU DANCE SO I HOPE YOU WIN U REALLY MADE YOUR MARK I LOVE U CROSE YOOUR FINGERS AND STILL DANCE ;0
Amire he rocks hes the best dancer in the whole whide world the best dancer ever the best
CASEY AND SAM ARE THE BEST DANCERS EVERRRR!
i vote ak square because they lit it up.
i love jade she is the best was dope u killed it girl good luke
from samara woods
much love
CASEY AND SAM! CASEY AND SAM! CASEY AND SAM! CASEY AND SAM! CASEY AND SAM!
Amire he rocks the best dancer ever the best he better then aksquare
Amire you are so cute i think u should win
ak square is my vote because they really connected in their last dance.
VOTE FOR CASEY AND SAM GUYS!
ak square was awsome
Amire HE rocks he;s the best
VOTE FOR AK SQUARE!!!!! ak square rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, what are the contestant numbers to vote via mobile phone?!!!
I mean ak square opps
VOTE FOR CASEY AND SAM PEOPLESSSSSS!
ak square
Amire he rocks he’s the best
I LOVE you Casey and Sam !!!!!
AK squared is THE best. They deserve to win. Their dance was the best out of all. The other dancers did good but AK squared was better by far!(:
Gooooooooooooooooooo Sksquareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my vote is for ak square and think the last dance they did really set them apart from the rest and really showed how much they really wanted to win.
I also vote for Ak squared luv yall name and luv yall dancin!!!!!!!1
Amire he rocks
i vote for Jadde, because she is so focused and i like her moves.
I think Aksquared did really good. I think they really made their mark. So I think I would vote for Aksquared
everyone vote for ak square pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee