With more than 75 years of UCLA history, Spring Sing 2025 was back in full bloom. After the annual student talent showcase and competition was canceled last year, the event returned to the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Friday night. Read more...
Spring Sing 2025
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May 15, 11:38 pm
Spring Sing 2025: Viva Corless’ music works to explore complexity of emotion, life
Through her music, Viva Corless is unfolding a love letter to her sonic authenticity. After her second time auditioning, the second-year theater student will take the stage for her first Spring Sing to perform her original song “Eat Your Words.” Corless said she wrote “Eat Your Words” when she was 16, and the song reckons with the societal pressures young women and queer people face growing up. Read more...
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May 15, 11:36 pm
Spring Sing 2025: ACA All Day embraces diverse styles of dance, cultivates close community
From day to night, ACA All Day showcases the world of dance with its moves. Following a win at the All-Cal Annual Hip-Hop Dance Competition, the student-led competitive dance team is returning to this year’s Spring Sing stage with its multifaceted choreography. Read more...
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May 15, 11:23 pm
Spring Sing 2025: Matty Gottesman reflects on musical process, community connection ahead of show
Matty Gottesman is back for another Spring Sing, this time with company. Singer-songwriter and producer Gottesman – a performer at the virtual 2024 Spring Sing – is bringing his original song “Voice of Reason” to the Los Angeles Tennis Center stage Friday. Read more...
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May 15, 9:53 pm
Spring Sing 2025: Ella Gibson to perform unreleased single, seaming together uncertainty, growth
Ella Gibson is stitching together a sonic patchwork of introspection and growth in her Spring Sing encore. Making her Los Angeles Tennis Center debut this Friday, the second-year music industry student is returning to the Spring Sing lineup with her new unreleased single “Patch.” Following last year’s virtual performance, Gibson said she has grown more confident in her vocal abilities, allowing her to embrace greater vulnerability within her lyricism. Read more...
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May 15, 9:51 pm
Spring Sing 2025: Synthesis Dance mixes multiple styles, focuses on fostering members’ love of dance
Synthesis Dance will fill Spring Sing with talent this Friday. Focused on creating an accessible environment for UCLA dancers, the student-led group honors its name by building a team with a diverse dance background that creates its own style, said its internal operations chair, Katy Palmer. Read more...
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May 15, 9:42 pm
Spring Sing 2025: Ryann Barnes prepares to showcase ‘truest self’ at in-person Spring Sing debut
Ryann Barnes is ready to explore a new stage. The second-year music industry student is slated to make her in-person Spring Sing debut after the competition’s cancelation and move to a virtual event due to the attack on and police sweep of the Palestine solidarity encampment last year. Read more...