Chrystelle Trump Bond

Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond (January 1, 1938[1] – May 6, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, dance historian, and author.

Bond was born to Viva V. Fridinger and George Elwood Trump Sr., both of Manchester, Maryland.

She had one sibling, a brother, George Elwood Jr.[2] 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.

[4][5] Bond completed graduate studies at Connecticut College for Women and Stephen F. Austin State University.

[6] Bond trained in modern dance with Martha Graham at the College of Dance in Connecticut[7] in addition to José Limón,[8] Donald McKayle, Lucas Hoving, Louis Horst, Twyla Tharp, Yvonne Rainer, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Murray Louis, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Betty Jones.

She trained in Renaissance dance with Julia Sutton, Ingrid Brainard, and Charles Garth.

She also attended seminars in "Reading artifacts" and "Popular Dance in Rural Life" at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

[11] She served as an artist-scholar in residence at Pennsylvania State University, Virginia Tech, and Bluefield College.

[9] Bond received a grant from the Maryland Humanities Council in 1991–1992 to conduct research on pre-20th-century American ballroom dances.

[5] Bond received an Excellence in Teaching grant from Goucher College to support the inventory and organization of the Estelle Dennis Dance Theatre and Louise Muse-Alicia Markova Collections.

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