Actors of the Provincial Dancing, Yekaterinburg Theatre of Modern Choreography will present a play based on The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe novel. 

According to the idea of the author and director, Tatyana Baganova, Sepia is not retelling the story told in the novel, but an attempt to deliver moments of state of a person in certain conditions. “The main idea to consider sand as negation of stability is not that insane, movement of one eighth of millimeter, the world, where existence is a sequence of states…  May be, it is absence of the form that is the highest manifestation of power.” This and other remarks of the novel author can be seen as the key to understanding the play.

Sand in Sepia is at the same time habitat for the heroes, symbol of time and an external factor that transforms consciousness. It streams from the hang glass bulbs down on dancing men and women, fills the scene turning it into the picturesque painting. It dictates rhythm, atmosphere, choreographic and image-bearing solution of the performance, it becomes its main dramatis personae and the habitat of characters. 

In the ensemble dances, actors resemble either wild animals, or mysterious insects, which the novel hero set out in search of. Invincible power of vitality, a special sense of time are read in this full tension that the performance delivers.

Endless pouring out sand is emphasized with long, lingering sounds of the Eighth Symphony of Awet Terteryan, in which the composer revealed the image of the primeval spirit of being that magically affects thoughts and feelings of spectators.

Sepia performance was created by Tatyana Baganova in the USA pursuant to the order of the American Dance Festival under International Choreographers programme. In autumn 2011, the Russian premiere of the performance took place. In 2012, Sepia became an awardee of Bravo! prize as the Best Musical Performance. In 2013, the performance received four nominations by Gold Mask Russian National Theatre  Award.

The performance will take place in Magnezit Cultural Center December 14, 6 p.m. After the end of the performance, meeting with the theatre company is planned. Admission free.