When “Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em” released in 1990, hip-hop fans were introduced to the kind of dance moves you absolutely needed baggy clothes on in order to do. And while MC Hammer had an excuse, ...

For hip-hoppers like Vanail, his love for dance comes at a price — they have to wear different hats to keep their passion ...

For hip-hop, this meant manipulating breakbeats from songs like Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” and “Numbers” to energize b-boys and b-girls; for house, it meant extending disco’s rhythmic pulse ...