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 vote for jade she the best out of all myy opition! :]
i vote for AKsquared!
I vote for AKsquared! <3
I think Jade is a really good dancer. I hope she wins.
You should really vote for Jade she did her best. She’s very talented and unique and she knows what she wants
Casey and Sam rocke it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Their gonna WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMIR WIN
GO AMIR EVERY BODY PLEASE VOTE FOR AMIR! 🙂
i vote for amir hi is so cute and i love his dances <3 GO AMIR!
IF YOU THINK SHE SHOULD WIN VOTE NOW. VOTE FOR JADE EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JADE WAS AWSOME
I think jade should win .SHE WAS COOL
casey and sam take my vote because they were sooooo awsome plz vote them cause u should!!!!!!:)
I really think ak squared should win . they did really good on the show .
Im totally voting 4 Jade she was the awesome dancer of them all
VOTE 4 JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
even thought liking Amir i think jade is the best dancer ever
yea jade totally rocked come on you got to vote for her
win win win win win win ak squared win win win
jade is the best please vote for her
AS a host in that dance off jade rocked than every body vote for her
That Ashley kid is right as a judge in tat dance off i totally think jade rocked in that dace off better than every body
I really think Jade should win that smile could sell anything. she is adorable and pretty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee vote for her please
i pick ak because they relly haved worked so hard and they are a true team i love all of them “)
i do not no who to vote for jade or ak and i pick ak
I VOTED FOR AMIR BECAUSE HE IS REALLYYYYYYYY TALENTED DANCER ON FRIDAY I WATCH MAKE YOUR MARK AND AMIR SHOW OFF HE’S MOVES
I VOTE ARAJANG BECAUSE HE KNOW KARATE AND HE THE ONLY BOY I SAW THAT COULD DO THE SPLIT. VOTE 4 ARAJANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well i Vote For Arjang James Mahdavi, because he was the coolest one of all. He Made A Dance Look Like a battle, i bet none of you can do that, the ties so far is Jade and Arjang. Love u.
Bella Throne
i vote for jade because she went out there and shine and did not car who was wacthing her that is why i had voted for jade
I VOTE JADE BECAUSE SHE DID GREAT ON MAKE UR MARK. VOTE 4 JADE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i vote for AK2 (AK QUARED
YO YO YO YO Vote for jade she is amazing and she worked relly hard so vote for jade
Please vote for Jade she is great at dancing and really WILL WIN so if you don’t vote for jade you all are losers
VOTE FOR JADE!!!!!!:)
i think amir will win because he is a great dance and he doesn’t go with the crowd
I love all dances wow
my brother says none of will win
CASEY AND SAM rock the stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woooooooooo
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aksquare you
rock
AK Squared was the Best. When Ariel did that flip, I loved it. AK Squared plessssssssssse win. I hope that there will be another Make Your Mark dance competiton. Go AK Squared, Go AK Squared, Go AK Squared, Go AK Squared.
I vote for AK Squared. They were the Best! I hope they Win! Selena Gomez gave them 10’s. And Gary Wilde please tell Selena Gomez that she is the best judge.
AK squared has MY vote. All you girls did a fabulous job!
i vote for ak
who I’m chosing is AKsquard because I think the last part of the show was great I think they will be the winner and I’m also being encoureged by them my dancing has been getting better and another thing I love acting too I all was dream about being an actor on TV Disney Channel
i vote for jade
Vote for AK 2 there awesome there dancing is awesome there cloths are awesome just like shake it up and there a teasm come vote 4 them
every body vote for jade she was the best dancer of all of them Ak Squared didn’t do nothin vote for jade every body
i hope aka squared win please win win win win win ♥
AK Squared Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win! AK, AK, AK, AK, AK, AK, AK, AK. Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win. AK Squared! Win, Win, Win, Win!
I VOTE FOR EVERYONE EXEPT FOR ARAJANG , HE DIDNT WORK VERY HARD ,HE DID A DANCE OF KARATY OR SOMETHING. THAT IS HIS THING THAT WASNT HARD FOR HIM . I LIKE ALL EXEPT FOR ARAJANG . I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT I LIKKE ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ,BUT ESPESIALLY AKSQUARED . SO THAT MEANS PLEASE VOTE FOR AKSQUARED 🙁 (puppy face)
AK Squared is Amazingggggggggggggg! I love them! Everyone pleassssssssssssssssssse vote for them!
pleassssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee everyone vote for aksquared!!! they were amazzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggggg!!! i would love to be on disney channnel soooooooooo much fun!!! i lovvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee ttooooo actt!!!
I vote for Jade to win she the best dancer i ever kno