The best way to get to the Beach Sessions, the must-see, very-with-it, August dance event on the Rockaways, is by ferry. Setting off from the Wall Street pier, the open-air vessel heads straight into the wild of wind and waves, where it rumbles along for miles. Though the battering ride is always a good prelude to a site-specific commission that weighs in on its environs, it’s especially fitting this year, with Faye Driscoll headlining as choreographer. For 15 eye-popping years, the queer L.A. transplant has been experimenting with onstage anarchy, the human version of wildness. For this outing, she will set her “flesh sculptures”—as she has described her sweaty, libidinal tableaux vivants—against the beach’s domesticated nature, on one hand, and the vast ocean, on the other. Mark the date: August 17. —Apollinaire Scherr