Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938-2020)  *82

was an American dancer, choreographer, dance historian, and author. Bond was the founding chair of the dance department at Goucher College. She was the co-founder and director of Chorégraphie Antique, the dance history ensemble at Goucher. Bond was a dance critic for The Baltimore Sun. Bond was born on New Year's Day 1938 to Viva V. Fridinger and George Elwood Trump Sr., both of Manchester, Maryland. Her father was an auto mechanic who later became a businessman. She had one sibling, a brother, George Elwood Jr.

Bond graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in dance from the Women's College of University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1960. She taught at the Women's College, Greensboro while she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Dance, also in Greensboro in 1963. Bond completed graduate studies at Connecticut College for Women and Stephen F. Austin State University. Bond was a dance historian, choreographer, dancer, and writer. Bond was the dance critic for The Baltimore Sun for 14 years. She served as an artist-scholar in residence at Pennsylvania State University, Virginia Tech, and Bluefield College. Bond performed or lectured at George Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, Towson University, and University of Roehampton. She was an instructor of dance and the artistic director of the dance company at Cedar Crest College from 1960 to 1962.

Bond formerly served as a faculty advisor for the New York Public Library, the Performing Arts Division of the Library of Congress, and the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library.

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