Third-year electrical engineering Ph.D. student Shelly Wu spins under the arms of third-year philosophy student Devon Vaccarino.
Third-year mathematics student Rachel Hirst dances with Vaccarino.
Wu changes partners for a portion of the night as the dancing continues.
Salsa instructor and UCLA research associate Arturo Medrano dances and teaches Wu later in the night.
Medrano twirls Wu to the sound of salsa music playing from a portable speaker.
The Salsa Society at UCLA dances at Bruin Plaza every Thursday night.
Hirst and Vaccarino continue to dance later on into the night.
Medrano and experienced members of the Salsa Society teach new dancers during the weekly street dancing.