John-Paul Zaccarini

John-Paul Zaccarini is Professor of Performing Arts at the Research Centre of Stockholm University of the Arts, responsible for the Profile Area Bodily and Vocal Practices. He has been a practitioner in theatre, dance, mime and circus with a focus on poetry and the spoken word as both performer and director/dramaturge and choreographer for 32 years.

His doctoratal thesis Circoanalysis: Circus, Therapy and Psychoanalysis was awarded in 2013.

He currently supervises 2 doctoral candidates and as Associate Professor in Circus he supervised one more to completion. He has completed 3 artistic research projects since he was awarded his doctorate in 2013. He is currently researching the intersections between art, therapy and activism in his project FutureBlackSpace which is a creative space for BIPOC to work with Radical Healing and decolonizing artistic research in majority white institutions and fields.