The main problematics of the literary genre of anti-utopia is related to the understanding of the essence of man and his place in the world and society; the focus of the authors of these works are the moral and philosophical categories of truth and freedom. Unlike the philosophical treatise, these categories are presented in a non-verbal form in a literary text. At the same time, writers often turn to other art forms and draw from them material for creating images. Thus, the semanticization of certain properties of musical genres is one of the mechanisms of modeling the fantastic grotesque world of anti-utopia. The subject of research is the inclusion of the antiutopia of march and dance in the artistic model of the world. These musical genres have a relatively stable semantics. However, the authors of anti-utopias, presenting the interaction of march and dance in different variants, enrich them with new connotations. In E.I. Zamyatin's novel "We" the ratio of march and dance correlates with fundamental oppos