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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – The Nutcracker Magical Christmas Ballet came to Colonial Theatre tonight in Idaho Falls, and the audience was treated to a holiday-spirited show.

People flocked to the theater downtown to watch the classic Christmas ballet. Talmi Entertainment is a country-wide touring dance production. They tour for two months and do 70 shows of The Nutcracker. Some days, they even have two or three shows.

Dancers in the production come from all over the world, including Ukraine and Japan. The story of The Nutcracker originated in 1816, written by E.T.A. Hoffman. It has since been re-written and re-imagined countless times. Tonight’s version was choreographed by Viktor Davyduik.

Dancer Mariia Molotsiian performs the roles of Snow Queen and Mrs. Stahlbaum in the production. She commented on the ballet, saying, “Everyone is so professional. There are a lot of people working with this company and we have a lot of crew people helping us to make the show perfect.”

Judging by the relentless applause, the audience found it perfect too. Molotsiian said the best part of traveling in the ballet is how she gets to see a new theater and a new crowd with a different atmosphere every day of the tour. She also said The Nutcracker is something special because people begin to feel the Christmas spirit as soon as they watch the ballet.

More information about Talmi Entertainment’s traveling ballet can be found at nutcracker.com.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — On this day, in the year 1993, the story goes that four bachelors in a Chinese university dorm were lamenting how they were single. It was hard for them, being so alone when all they wanted was to be loved.

They looked at a calendar, and saw the date, November 11th, which appeared as 11/11.

There was a “1” for each of them, surely it was a sign.

They decided to celebrate single life instead of regretting it, and the impromptu holiday spread, through the university and into wider Chinese culture.

It was originally known as Bachelor’s Day, now known as Single’s Day.

Many stores do promotions and sales for the holiday, and it’s actually the biggest day for e-commerce out of the year, world wide.

People also celebrate by throwing blind date parties, and ironically, it’s now also a day to celebrate relationships.

More than 4000 couples got married in Beijing on this date in 2011.

That’s a lot, especially compared to the city’s average of 700 marriages a day.

We’re not sure whether it’s “Single’s Day”, with the apostrophe on the inside, or “Singles’ Day,” with the apostrophe on the outside.

The former suggests the day belongs to each single person individually, while the latter implies it belongs to all singles collectively, a day to be alone, together.

We’ll let you decide.

Sources for this story:

TheFactSite

Time

Shipixy

BBC