Hailing from South Australia’s Riverland region, Darcy Carpenter discovered Restless during an Education Outreach workshop. She joined Restless in 2014 and debuted on stage with Restless in The Memory Keeper as part of the From The Ground Up Project and the Watermark Project at the Australian Youth Dance Festival. Darcy’s early performances included Touched (2015) and In The Balance for the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
In 2018, Darcy performed Intimate Space at the Hilton Surfers Paradise as part of Bleach* Festival 2018 as part of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, including performances in the opening and closing ceremonies. Later that year, she captivated audiences with Creating the Spectacle at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival. In 2019, Darcy toured with the Restless Dance Theatre Company to the Seoul Street Arts Festival for a season of Intimate Space.
In 2021, Darcy joined The Company and performed in the Adelaide Festival premiere season of Guttered and Ecoute Pour Voir | Listen to See at the Adelaide Festival Centre for Adelaide’s DreamBig Festival. She also performed in A Date With Restless which toured regionally, Ecoute Pour Voir | Listen to See as part of WOMADelaide. Additionally, she premiered Exposed and Rewards For The Tribe, a collaboration between Chunky Move and Restless as part of RISING: Melbourne Festival.
In 2023, Darcy performed in the premiere season of Shifting Perspectives for the 2023 Illuminate Festival Adelaide and Counterpoise in South Korea. She performed Exposed in FRAME: A Biennial of Dance in Melbourne, toured a regional tour with Country Arts SA, Theatre Royal Hobart, before taking the stage at the Sydney Opera House as part of the 50th birthday celebrations in Exposed and SIDance Festival South Korea.
The year 2024 began with a sold-out season at the Adelaide Festival featuring the premiere of Private View, followed by an Australian tour. Darcy also performed Shifting Perspectives in VIVID Sydney and saw the world premiere of Dancing Against the Odds and Counterpoise as part of OzAsia Festival with the Adelaide Film Festival.
