It’s worth attending the free, outdoors Battery Dance Festival for locale alone. The sun slipping behind the Statue of Liberty sets dances ablaze (remember your sunglasses), then in silhouette. Eventually a bruised indigo twilight emerges as backdrop. As for the shows, it depends on the evening. The annual Indian Independence Day program (August 15) is always worth checking out, this year for how diasporic choreographers such as the Bay Area’s Nadhi Tekkek have woven social issues (immigration, women’s rights) into classical technique. The international night (August 12) offers artists outside the orbit of big European and New York presenters. How could they have missed the Romanians Maria-Luiza Dimulescu and Camelia Neagoe’s sassy, furious, and spot-on trio Maybe by 2301, We Won’t Need Another Feminist Show? Focused on emerging talent, the New York-centric sessions can lurch into amateur terrain, but there are also dancemakers such as the Peruvian New Yorker Miguel Miranda, whose comic precision, visual imagination, and poetic compression leave you wanting that rare thing from early-career choreography: more. —Apollinaire Scherr