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 theAustralian Youth Dance Festival. Darcy’s early performances included Touched (2015) and In The Balance for the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Career Highlights
- Member of The Company since 2021
- Performing in 2018 Commonwealth opening and closing ceremonies
- Performed at the Adelaide Festival, WOMADelaide, RISING Melbourne, Illuminate Adelaide and VIVID Sydney
- International touring artist in South Korea, including Seoul Street Arts Festival and SIDance Festival
- Performed at the Sydney Opera House as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations
- Featured in the dance film and documentary Counterpoise and Dancing Against the Odds
Performances
- Intimate Space, BLEACH* Festival, Hilton Surfers Paradise, 2018 (Commonwealth Games Arts and Culture Program)
- Creating the Spectacle, Adelaide Film Festival, 2018
- Intimate Space, Seoul Street Arts Festival, 2019
- Guttered, Kingpin Norwood, Adelaide Festival, 2021
- Ecoute Pour Voir, Adelaide Festival Centre, DreamBIG Festival, 2021
- Ecoute Pour Voir, WOMADelaide, 2022
- Exposed, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, April 2022
- Rewards for the Tribe, RISING: Melbourne Festival, 2022
- Shifting Perspectives, Illuminate Festival, 2023
- Counterpoise, South Korea
- Exposed, FRAME: A Biennial of Dance, Arts House, 2023
- Exposed, Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre & Chaffey Theatre, Mt Gambier & Renmark, May 2023
- Exposed, Theatre Royal, Hobart, 2023
- Exposed, Sydney Opera House, August 2023
- Exposed, SIDance Festival, South Korea, 2023
- Counterpoise & Dancing Against the Odds, Dance Film & Documentary, OzAsia Festival & Adelaide Film Festival 2023
- Private View, Adelaide Festival, 2024
- Private View, Sydney Festival, 2024
- Private View, Brisbane Festival, 2024
- Shifting Perspectives, VIVID Sydney, 2024
- Guttered, Joondalup Festival, 2026
