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. star says:

    hi im star and i hope the two little girls win.i forgot their names but u girls rocked!GOOD LUCK CUTIES

  2. gaby says:

    LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

  3. gaby says:

    i love shake up make your mark

  4. Pauline says:

    go DJ’s Mix they areaowsome!!!

  5. Haleigh says:

    dj mixx im going to do it next year beacause of yall lets go

  6. Anna Bivens says:

    Hey I hope that Ashley wins cause she just kinda inspires me to dance and i do hip hop jazz lyrical clogging so i love ashley gooooooooooooo AAAAASSSSSSHHHLLLEEEYYYY

  7. ABIGAILJONES says:

    I Love Your Show It Is Awesome And Great And I Love Justin Bieber Songs And Selena Gomez!

  8. sara says:

    GO DJs MIX!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. niani says:

    yay!!!!!!! make ur mark i been waiting all year

  10. Emily says:

    Omg!! I’m 12 and I still don’t like slake it up!! It’s a really bad idea to have this competition because you are breaking those other kids hearts and they are going to lose viewers!! So try rethinking just a bit because it’s upsetting and thats why I won’t try out because even though I don’t like this show anyway if I did you might lose my viewing… Sorry but it’s true…. But if I HAD to choose I would choose it would be the IDENTIDY GROUP!!! I was channel surfing and I saw them dance like the Boys on the x-factor 2008

    -coolkidd m&m!!

  11. Madeline says:

    I think urban extreme should win they are sooooooooooooooo
    Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!GO URBAN EXTREME!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. MINDY NGUYEN says:

    THIS SHOW IS AAAWWWEEESSSOOMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Carmen Rivera says:

    I vote for dj mixx because there ALSOME and they look the same.♥♥♥♥

  14. kiara gonzales says:

    ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo d-j-m-i-xx uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gggggggggggggggggggggggggoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo llllllllllllooooooooooooovvvveeeeeeeeee yyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu djmixx uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  15. MINI says:

    go ashley and DJ’S MIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  16. Kaylee says:

    Hi bx5 is cute voye for them

  17. Hailee says:

    I think Ashleigh should winnnn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3>

  18. beg765 says:

    Hey I hope DJ mix wins the other people not so much

  19. abeni davis says:

    i love your show go dj mixx

  20. Eric says:

    What’s the numba to vote to make your mark

  21. Eric says:

    I think Kaitlin should win

  22. JADE says:

    HEY GIRLS. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE MADE IT SO FAR!!SO I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU GOOD LUCK

    GO DJ’S MIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. shanice says:

    omgi like you ashly go ashly

  24. Catherine says:

    Dj mix !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

  25. taliyah says:

    go cee and rocky do a good job hosing bye

  26. taliyah says:

    dj mix dj mix girls yall look like my friend that dance with me good luck

  27. Abby Stevens says:

    I am cheering for you Ashley.

  28. kelsey says:

    Do it dj’s mix

  29. kelsey says:

    Let’s do this dj’s mix

  30. kelsie says:

    I LOVE SHAKE IT UP!!!!!YOU CAN DO IT DJ MIXX!!!!!

  31. kelsie says:

    I LOVE SHAKE IT UP!!!!!1 YOU CAN DO IT DJ MIXX!!!!!!

  32. kaitlan says:

    i love your show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i bet yall make alot of green$.i want to have a chance to meet yall i watch vidoes of yall on youtube yall are halarious!! i liked the one were cece danced i was laghing my butt off!:)

  33. kaykay says:

    i love shake it up

  34. nkeng says:

    although i watch this show and i love it, rocky and cece or whosoever is doing the dance competition, “”wonna hand de strong like Chinese handbrake”” is a very popular saying in ma language for some one who is very selfish and kind of wicked like rocky and cece because of alll the money they have in the world they pick just one winnner, seriously just one, making most of the other kids who auditioned to feel real badd………………thats alll i gotta say to those two dancers or watever they think they are and i hope ZENDAYA and BELLA read this whole post…..( Luke 6:38 The More You Give The More You Receive , read this)

  35. sassy says:

    love u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! awsome show

  36. alejandra says:

    hi,i love your show .i wonder whos going to win!!!!!!!!!!! pease love out[; lol

  37. taliyah says:

    i love rocky and im going to be rocky for halloween yeah rocky

  38. taliyah says:

    I go for dj mix you rock girl i hope you win have fun do your best bye good luck

  39. Jady Elijah Lovette says:

    um……….. i don’t know who it is but i just would like to meet JB he’s so kute and roshon from shake it up he’s kute too and Gonsta forgot his real name!

  40. Cassandra oldham says:

    OMG I love dj mix you of girls your awesome

  41. lauren ashley adams says:

    i also love ashley GO ASHLEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  42. lauren ashley adams says:

    cant wait any longer to see who wins I LOVE YOUR SHOW and i hope that dj mix wins

  43. arielle says:

    dj mix girls you can do it

  44. gabby says:

    can’t wait to see who wins!!! i want to meet cece and rocky so much!!! i am going to be cece for halloween!:)

  45. Michaela says:

    I admire Justin Beiber. I have everything I have all the stuff. Only if I can get Justin Beibers number.

  46. Nia Williams says:

    A-S-H-L-E-Y

    WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? ASHLEY!

  47. I wad in it i won says:

    i won yea

  48. kimberly says:

    dj mixx go girls go

  49. GABRELLA DAVIS says:

    I LOVE YOUR SHOW