Stuart Hodes, who danced with Martha Graham in the 1940s and ‘50s and who for the rest of his life served the field of dance as a performer, choreographer, educator, administrator and author, died on March 15 in Manhattan. He was 98.

Mr. Hodes did not grow up as a dancer. When he took his first dance class, at the Martha Graham Studio in 1946, he was nearly 21 and fresh from flying B-17 bombers for the Army during WWII. Mr. Hodes would connect the experience of working with Graham with that as a wartime pilot. Working with Graham was “life in the eye of the storm, at the epicenter of an earthquake,” he wrote in his memoir, Onstage With Martha Graham.

Martha Graham died in 1991, but his devotion to her never faded. During a 2007 show reuniting Graham alumni, he recited a witty rap in her honor, ending with the lines, “Now every day on celestial grass / Heaven is taking Martha’s class.”