Writer-producer-director-choreographer Garry Stewart has said: "I loved creating this film. Filming dance in these somewhat forbidding locations is not for the faint-hearted and our dancers rose to the challenge beautifully. The positive responses we have received from film festivals around the globe is incredibly gratifying...One of the impacts of COVID has been the plethora of dance film projects that have been produced around the world as choreographers and dancers have turned away from the stage to work with a variety of technologies including film."
The Australian Dance Theatre states: ''-'The Circadian Cycle' has screened at more than a dozen international film festivals since its world premiere in 2020, winning a number of awards. Featuring spectacular natural locations across SA [South Australia], the film charts the cycle of a day - sunrise, midday, late afternoon into night - "using the dancing to express animality and creaturehood in confluence with the complex processes of nature".
The film in January 2021 was the winner of the Best of Fest Jury Award at the Dance Camera West Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The film in April 2021 was the winner of the Audience Award at the Bodyscope Dance Film Festival in Moscow, Russia.
The film was shot in stunning, iconic locations across South Australia, including Flinders Chase National Park, Lake Bumbunga, Lake Gairdner, Maslin Beach, Mount Lofty Botanic Garden and Mount Remarkable National Park.