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02:29With an area of 1,080 square kilometers, the island measures 80 kilometers at its longest point by 39 kilometers at its widest.
02:37The island has a population of about 415,000.
02:50The neighboring islands to Martinique are Dominique, which is 25 kilometers to the north,
02:55Guadeloupe, 120 kilometers to the north, and St. Lucia, 37 kilometers to the south.
03:00It's thought to owe its name to Christopher Columbus, the first European to discover it on June 15, 1502.
03:12The island was then called Madanin, Madiana, or Mantinino by its inhabitants, the Calinas,
03:19who were said to have spoken of a mythical island known to the Tainos people of Hispaniola.
03:24The name evolved with different pronunciations to Madinina, the island of flowers, Madiana, Matinit,
03:30and finally through the influence of its neighboring islands, and finally through the influence of its neighboring island, Dominica, the name became Martinique.
03:35In Martinique, you have the sky, the sun, and the sea.
03:56But there are also fields of sugarcane, forest paths, villages in the middle of nowhere, fantastic gardens, and many other marvels.
04:05Martinique, Courage Island, resists cyclones as well as earthquakes.
04:21Even though everyone remembers Hurricane Dean, the island has since become green and vibrant again.
04:35Created in 1658, when the settlers chased the last remaining Caribs from the northeast coast of Martinique,
04:55Sainte-Marie grew out of Font Saint-Jacques, a monastic house.
04:59Sainte-Marie is a pivotal point between the north and southeast of the island and stretches over 4,456 hectares.
05:12Known as the cradle of Martinican traditions, Sainte-Marie proudly boasts a heritage developed through the crossbreeding of its people.
05:20Sainte-Marie means nature, sea, creole cooking, storytelling, tradition, and belay dancing.
05:26Belay, also called bel air, the Frenchifying of a creole word, is a musical style in which a singer leads the music in a strong voice,
05:38while the dialogue develops between the dancers and the tambouillé, the drum player.
05:42Here we are at the House of Belay, which was founded in Sainte-Marie in February 2003.
06:04Today we see many former performers who grew up here in the tradition of Belay.
06:08It was to bring people like them out of the shadows and give them the place they deserve that the House of Belay was created.
06:22So this evening, the House of Belay is welcoming the Belay Associations of Martinique for a little belay time.
06:29And this belay time is reserved for beginners.
06:33That means people who have been dancing a year or two, no more.
06:37This evening is just for them, with drumming, with dancing, and with tibois.
06:42Belay is a dance in Martinique that comes from our slavery period.
06:47So it's a legacy from Africa, with various European contributions.
06:51So, you have singers, the drum, tibois, dancers, and délés voices that we call choruses.
07:00These are songs that are very, very old, because the masters of Belay are between 80 and 90 years of age.
07:21So, they're the trustees of this tradition.
07:24They're the oldest in Martinique, and they're all originally from Sainte-Marie.
07:28In Belay, the singing is in Creole, only in Creole.
07:33So you have several different rhythms in Belay.
07:35You have seven rhythms.
07:38You have belia.
07:39You have gran belay.
07:41Piche belay.
07:43Begin belay.
07:45Cho belay.
07:46You have link-lay dances.
07:48These are dances that are performed afterwards, that are performed in line.
07:52There's the mabelo, the canigwe, the benezwe, the tingbang, and the si-belay.
08:01You also have what we call damny, which is a combat dance.
08:07Usually, damny is performed in the early part of the evening.
08:10Then you have the belay dances, and then the link-lay dances.
08:14So, depending on where you live or where you're living at the moment, you choose an association.
08:20We all have the same customs, where women wear a T-shirt, a skirt, a petticoat, and the scarf.
08:28We dance barefoot.
08:29Men wear loose clothing for ease of movement.
08:32And especially, we dance with our knees bent.
08:35We don't dance upright.
08:36We dance knees bent so our knees are protected.
08:39And that also comes from the field dances.
08:57The songs, as well as their purpose of giving a rhythm to work,
09:01were a means of recounting the island's history, as well as the communities and the neighbourhoods.
09:05Recounting with irony the differences between colonizers,
09:09and also the woes of a friend or of a foreman, and many other such things.
09:16The issue of belay's origin raises a real controversy,
09:19related to Martinique's turbulent past.
09:21and the joy of Becca 90 works.
09:39Interesting.
09:45Thank you.
09:46I'm trying to agree.
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