Chrystelle Trump Bond

Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond (January 1, 1938 – May 6, 2020) 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.

Early life and education Bond was born 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.

Training Bond trained in modern dance with Martha Graham at the College of Dance in Connecticut in addition to José Limón, 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 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1960 to 1962.

Goucher College Bond joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1963 In 1969, Bond was an assistant professor of physical education and director of dance at Goucher. She was an associate professor of physical education in 1973.

She later served in the Goucher English and Performing Arts departments before the establishment of the Dance Department. In 1975, Bond became the founding chair of the Dance department of Goucher. From 1985 to 1990, she held the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professorship.

She used the Estelle Dennis Dance Theatre Collection to pursue research on the history of dance in Baltimore from 1780 to 1960. Bond also worked on a biography of Lillian Moore and the history of dance at Goucher from 1886 through 2008 to serve as a microcosm of dance in higher education. It contains approximately 1,000 pieces dating from 1820 through 1962. The collection consists mostly of American and European pop and dance music. It is comprehensive in its coverage of social and theatrical dance, cultural studies of dance, and dance reconstruction between the early 19th and 20th centuries.

Chorégraphie Antique Bond was the director and co-founder of Chorégraphie Antique, an ensemble of dance history at Goucher.

Community involvement In Summer 1967, Bond taught a dance history course for the Summer Arts Institute hosted at Goucher and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1986, she held a workshop on 16th-century court dancing for the Maryland Council for Dance at Wilde Lake High School. From 1985 to 1986, Bond was the president of the Congress on Research in Dance. She served on the board of directors of Congress on Research in Dance from 1983 to 1986.

Bond died on May 6, 2020, in her home.

Awards and honors Bond received the Goucher Distinguished Faculty award in 1984. In 1991, she received a distinguished alumni award from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1994, she received the distinguished service award from the Maryland Council for Dance.

Selected works