Madison Olandt, a second-year world arts and cultures/dance and psychology student, said her major has given her a sixth sense.
“We’ll take a class where we will all lay down and close our eyes, listening to our surroundings, or sit in Bruin Plaza and then make a dance out of the pedestrian gestures we observed,” Olandt said.

At the Bridge 2014 competition, ACA Hip Hop’s winning performance was recorded. The video has garnered more than 800,000 views on YouTube since.
“Some people (on the team) would walk to class and they would see some people on their phones watching the video,” said second-year bioengineering student Rachel Fujikawa.

On top of Parking Structure 2 on most weekend evenings throughout winter and spring quarter, dancers leapt across parking spots, while singers belted out their favorite pop songs and actors interjected witty lines.

Nikki Friedman came up with a new theme two weeks after performing in Spring Sing last year with her sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha.

Landen Baldwin compared the role of Company to drinking a glass of water after each bite of ice cream.
“It’s almost a palate cleanser,” said Baldwin, a third-year linguistics student and first-time member of Company.

A pleasant range of voices fills the depths of Parking Structure 7 as Signature A Cappella prepares its four-minute Spring Sing set.
The group of female vocalists will perform an original rendition of songs by the Beatles at Spring Sing.

Since 2007, Bruin Harmony has won eight awards at Spring Sing for their performances of Top 40 hits. This year, the group is bringing a jazz classic to Pauley Pavilion, said Prescott Rynewicz, a second-year aerospace engineering student and member of Bruin Harmony.

UCLA’s Random Voices is accustomed to being defined by its all-women status. Though the a cappella group embraces an image of female empowerment, its members said they hope viewers can see beyond that and focus on the skill and hard work that goes into each performance.

Lashon Halley found out she was performing at Spring Sing, called her friend Xiomara Fambrough and said, “Yo Xi, I got in with the song I wrote for you.”
A year ago, Halley wrote the song “Done with You” for Fambrough, who was having problems with her boyfriend.

With three Spring Sings already under his belt and a UCLA degree imminent, fourth-year cognitive science student Nick Valentini is in the midst of working towards the future.