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.
All the dancers shocked me with fantastic entertainment! I will vote for Amir, because of his outstanding performance, and i encourage EVERYONE to vote for him too! Please help me and let amir win!
i vote for the aksqared
i loved iT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!! Go Amir! Nice job on dancing you were excellent, but can anyone tell me how to vote?
hope you well win awesome.
hi my name is Charlott hope you won go.
you rock i hope you won gogogogogogogogo
i like jade the most
i vote for aksqoared they are the bomb
Arjang is the best!!!! bestest dancer & he’s sexy
– Jaslyn <3
Omg jade should win SHE THE MOST BEST and ak squarded is kibda they both rock!
VOTE FOR ARJANG OR CHRISTINE AND JUNE! ALsO CASEY ND SAM!
ak squared is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jade,amir,arang you all rock
vote for aksquared!!!!!!!!!
CECE you rock
Dahlia
vote for aksquared!!!!!!!!!
CC you rock
Dahlia
jade
I think arjang was the best out of all the dancers…..hope you WIN ARJANG
Amir was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He should win …….he can really dance and he is so cute
i love akquared
I REALLY HOPE AKSQUARED WINS THEY WERE THE BEST I LIKE JADE SECOND BUT AKSQURED ROCKED
I VOTE AKSQUARED THEY ROCKED
AK rocked there my best friends
i think Jade she got talent and attitude love it!!!
I hope so 2 eleanor he’s really good
I think Amir should win because he knows how to dance and hes really good. And hes cute (: So i vote for him !
jade,arjang,amir,casey and sam,aksquared
HOPE YOU WIN ARJANG!!!
I vote for aksquare they are great dancers and rocks
They all rocked amir was the best!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!
i vote for AKsquare they are a great dancers and rocks
GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY R DEFINTELY THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW I loved you ak squared!!!!!!
GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED GO AKSQUARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY R DEFINITELY THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rocks the stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW I loved you ak squared
I think Arjang is the best out of all the dancers 🙂
Jade was very good! ,jade
I vote for AKsquared!!!
ak squared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rocks they are awesome
i like your show rocky andcece.
Jade
Jade! Jade!
casey and sam do you love them jeffrey
ak squared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!rocks!
i want ak squared
i think a AMIR will win go AMIR you rock
ak they rock they are going to win
THEY ALL ROCKED AMIR WAS THE BEST
aksquared ur the best and ur all really pretty and thats coming from a guys perspective 🙂
ak squared and june and cristin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!