In this work wee see a man, Vusi Yende, dance to South African jazz  pianist, Andile Yenana’s 2002 composition Tembisa (The People). Vusi’s captivating improvised dancing comes from a tradition known as ‘diga  dancing’, which is associated with Jazz Appreeciation Clubs spread around historically Black townships of Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa. Diga is an improvised tradition of solo dancing that accompanies the act of collective listening. It is aesthetically rooted in black performance and its deep connection to  global jazz cultures. In this work, improvisation speaks to the reconstitution of time, whilst the reference to the Maroon’s helps us think about global Blackness, and about escape, or fugitivity as a way of performing possibility in conditions of enduring oppression.