Eight-year-old Khamari Bendolph set his stereo down in the crosswalk of Quincy Street in Boston, preparing for a dance battle with the neighbor’s kid. He synced the Harlem shake dance with the pulse of the music and shuffled his energetic feet to the heel toe, stopping only when cars needed to pass. Read more...

Photo: Fifth-year dance student Khamari Bendolph grew up in Boston’s troubled inner city, where he lost his father and brother in a drive-by shooting. Bendolph now tries to help youth dealing with the same struggles by mentoring them away from the dangers of inner-city life and hosting dance workshops. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

Mark Royston’s number one rule for “Devised Puppetry Project” was “Don’t read the newspaper.” The articles tended to distract the actors as they built their puppets out of leftover Daily Bruin newspapers. Read more...

Photo: Four UCLA students spent six weeks preparing for “Devised Puppetry Project,” which has no props or dialogue. The actors made the puppets themselves out of Daily Bruin newspapers. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)

Angela Nguyen has a tattoo of a colorful butterfly conspicuously etched on her right ankle. Less conspicuous, however, are the scars that lie underneath the tattoo – the permanent and colorless marks of self-harm. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year psychobiology student Katie Patel’s tattoo was inspired by a phrase a police officer said to her after Patel’s first attempt at suicide. The semicolon at the end of the phrase is inspired by the Semicolon Project. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)