Motion X Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in Northern Virginia. Founded in 2013 by Stephanie Dorrycott, the company aims to foster individuality and artistic growth among its dancers. Motion X creates relatable dance pieces that reflect the human experience, presenting the real world through an artistic lens.
Our mission is to share innovative and thought-provoking dance works with diverse audiences, featuring choreographers who value each artist and promote a safe, collaborative environment. Our dancers use their technical skills as a foundation to explore and develop unique styles of movement, creating a repertoire that connects deeply with the community while appealing to a broad audience. Motion X thrives on collaboration with other artistic disciplines and has found its greatest success in multimedia works that blend dance with visual, digital, and spoken art forms. The company has presented three original multimedia works--Altered Archives (2015, Capital Fringe), The Fate of Choice (2020, Atlas Intersections Festival), and Polyscope (2025, Atlas Intersections Festival).
Motion X has performed at notable venues along the East Coast, including the Atlas Performing Arts Center, The Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center, The Grace Street Theater in Richmond, VA, and the Charlotte Ballet Theater in Charlotte, NC. In 2019, the company was honored to present Turning Point at the 36th Annual Choreographer’s Showcase at the University of Maryland and was invited that same year to lead an open-level master class at the Kennedy Center’s REACH Opening Festival. Now entering its 11th season, Motion X continues to inspire audiences with visually compelling work that sparks dialogue around the complexity of the human experience. In addition to performance, the company remains committed to providing affordable, high-quality training opportunities for dancers in the DMV through open classes and its annual Summer Workshop.
Our mission is to share innovative and thought-provoking dance works with diverse audiences, featuring choreographers who value each artist and promote a safe, collaborative environment. Our dancers use their technical skills as a foundation to explore and develop unique styles of movement, creating a repertoire that connects deeply with the community while appealing to a broad audience. Motion X thrives on collaboration with other artistic disciplines and has found its greatest success in multimedia works that blend dance with visual, digital, and spoken art forms. The company has presented three original multimedia works--Altered Archives (2015, Capital Fringe), The Fate of Choice (2020, Atlas Intersections Festival), and Polyscope (2025, Atlas Intersections Festival).
Motion X has performed at notable venues along the East Coast, including the Atlas Performing Arts Center, The Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center, The Grace Street Theater in Richmond, VA, and the Charlotte Ballet Theater in Charlotte, NC. In 2019, the company was honored to present Turning Point at the 36th Annual Choreographer’s Showcase at the University of Maryland and was invited that same year to lead an open-level master class at the Kennedy Center’s REACH Opening Festival. Now entering its 11th season, Motion X continues to inspire audiences with visually compelling work that sparks dialogue around the complexity of the human experience. In addition to performance, the company remains committed to providing affordable, high-quality training opportunities for dancers in the DMV through open classes and its annual Summer Workshop.
Movement style
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The movement style of the company has evolved since its founding in 2013, reflecting a blend of diverse modern dance influences. Motion X dancers cultivate a deep connection between breath and extension, using it to expand the body’s reach both vertically and horizontally.
Over time, founder Stephanie Dorrycott has developed this approach as a way to guide dancers toward a more expressive and technically integrated place. This evolving movement language—often described as “dynamic release”—is grounded in classical modern, ballet, and jazz techniques. Motion X dancers are technically strong, with the ability to move seamlessly through transitions by relying on breath, gravity, and momentum. Their movement carries a sense of ease, supported by clarity of intention, control, and strength. "To say this is “dancing” seems to undermine the power of the performance. The cadence is hypnotic to the point that I stopped viewing the dancers as people, but more as perennial beings lost in an endless metamorphosis." - Max Kaplow, DC Theatre Scene |