Celine's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT, which he dedicated to the dancer Elisabeth Craig. At the time of his death, according to his wife -- also a dancer -- he was planning a book devoted to dance.
"A man who doesn't dance confesses some disgraceful weakness," he wrote Milton Hindus. "I put dancing into everything."
1892295067 Ballets without Music, without Dancers, without Anything
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

and 1564784495 Conversations With Professor Y -- Dalkey Archive Press (June 20, 2006)
interview (imaginary conversation btw Professor Y and Celine, who rails against convention and defends his idiosyncratic methods as a writer)