Rudolf Fritz Karl Berthold Bode (3 February 1881 – 7 October 1970) was a German educator and founder of expressive gymnastics[1] His central concerns were holistic movement, its rhythmic design and the interaction of body and soul.
The Bode Federation expanded quite quickly in the following period, so that in addition to the school in Munich in Berlin, Bremen and Wroclaw, other venues were created.
His 1933 The spiritual foundations of dance in the National Socialist state predates his activities at Neuhaus and confirms his alliance to Nazism.
Rudolf Bode believed original natural movement could be lost due to incorrect education or persistent unilateral activity.
[11] To restore the natural course of movement as an expression of inner experience was to be the task of gymnastics, an idea based on principles he established;[12]