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 arjang or alyssa ariel and the other peeps because my name is alyssa and my sisters name is ariel
I vote for Jade she is the best
aka squared!
VOTE FOR AKSQUARED!!!!!!! I DID. 🙂
omg jade you are the best
i think you will be a perfeshina; dancer when you older you rock girl.keep dancing
the two sisters from nj
i LOVE U Jade i give u 10 10 10!!!!!
vote for june&christene!!!
was that real jade who wrought
Hey kaitlyn that is my real name and it is spelled the same way ps were u from
jade shes cute and i vote jade she like me i never break my smile jade i vote jade
vote for casey and sam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JADE JADE
lol
i vote for ariel,alyssa and the other girlz becasue they rock the house
Jade, i vote for her!:)
I LOVE SLEANA GOMEZ TELL HER I LOVE HER AND I VOTE FOR CASEY AND SAM
i vote for jade
Casey and Sam!!!!
WOOOOO GO JADE I VOTE FOR HER 100%
Im so proud of her!
omg jade u are amazing i love ur smile u are so amazing im porbably gonna vote for u :):):):)
I vote for Amir because can feel how the moves are
i vote 4 arjang because he is an amazing dancer with amazing talent
i vote 4 arijang
i vote for jade
i vote for arjang
please AKsquared,WIN!!!!!
i vote for jade shes so cute great dancer i cant evens dance like that 😀
I love Selena Gomez
i vote for sam +casey and arjang
just put your vote
casey and sam are ballirinas
aksquared !!!!!!
I love them!!!
sooooooooooo A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think i change my mind GO JADE u are buteyful and ur a great dancer and i think u would be a great teacher for danceing ummmm well i think thats it GO JADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys did you like it?
cacy and sam where really good
it went on chermaarechel whawha
i dont know how to vote for people can someone tell me how to vote for people online i need to do it right now or i cant vote at all
tell Sealeana she is asome and say my vote Jade
I vote for jade and Sam
for jade 10 10 10
i vote for aksquared and sam + casey
arjang
its just someones opinion.
jade or ajanh………illinois is awsome ……i recamend jade! no balliriannas
OOOOOO THEY LIKE LIKE HER!
4 arjang
Arjang
vote for jade