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.
Casey and Sam are amazing vote 4 them!!!!!!!!
GO JADE!!!!! Vote for Jade she’s a really good dancer! 🙂
I vote 4 amir
i want juneand other girland selena your cute and vote
I vote for jane
i want to vote 4 amir
Arjang rocks vote for him!!!!!!!
I like all if them whooo
I like ajang
Amir will win!!!!!!!
I want to vote for the 5 sisters because they are the best!
I want to vote for the 5 sisters because they are the best
GOOO CHIRSTINA AND JUNE
I like jade
i hope arjang wins
OMG JADE U IS A GREAT DANCER
I like jade.
VOTE FOR JADE SHES NUMBER ONE VOTE FOR JADE SHE WHANT RAIN ON YOUR PARADE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
VOTE FOR JADE SHES NUMBER ONE VOTE FOR JADE SHE WHANT RAIN ON YOUR PARADE
jade jade vote
jade my family jotes jade!
selena im your bigest fan im deersing lik u today plese make that group WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think AKsquad should win
jade vote for her
i think jade should win because she is the best out of all.
i really want her to win.
pleaseeeeeee make her win selena gomez
heavyn beguiet plese
i lke jade but sorry
i think jade and amir
jade i vote for her
i think jade should win because she is the best out of all.
i really want her to win.
pleaseeeeeee make ur win selena gomez
well i lov cece the most and rocky me and my best friend maria guzman we ack like were yall lov ya duses
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GO……JADE GOT DANCE MOVES AND STYLE
vote for jade
hi its aryana on my friends email goooooooo jade lets win
LETS SEE WHO WINS
JAILA UR JUST JELOUS
NO THEY ARENT
i vote for jade
i like that big grup there fun exciting they love to move duces love
AKSQAURES OKAY
AK SQUARE IS BETTER KAYLA
JNE AND CHRISTINE MAY WIN
AKSQUARES BETTER
june and christine
i think aksquared could or june and christine dont know but i hope 1 of them win they have lke the best dances ever I HOPE THEY WINNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jades cousin goes to my school
jades cousin goes to my school
I LKE AK SQUARE CAUSE TERE BETTER THAN JADE LIKE JAILA SAYED
I think that Amir should win cause hes really cool and i like his moves lol 🙂
i love AK SQUARE CAUSE THERE BETTER THAN JADE I DONT WANT TO SAY HER NAME SHE DANCE SO BADLY
jade has to win i love your style and dances