Introduction: Argentine Tango as Revolution

In my blog Deep Play in an Anarchist's Repertoire I introduced the "trinity" of Stranger, Risk, and Deep Play. For my interests, Anarchist's Repertoire covers a lot of ground; as a narrative auto-ethnographic story about a trip I took back and forth across the country one summer, it called forth an expanse of questions and convictions I hold dear about spirituality, politics, society, psychology, and so forth! Still, the primary motivator for writing the blog was my desire TO WORK OUT strong suppositions I had about the import of and meaningful connexion between the notions of stranger, risk (risk-taking), and deep play. Therefore the works remains to treat the trinity itself by revealing it's paradigmatic nature. Engaging one of the three cornerstones of my paradigm in this forthcoming blog "So-Called Strangers", I argue why the Stranger is best understood and utilized in dancing Argentine Tango, and simultaneously why dancing Argentine Tango is one of the best forms of revolution. If Anarchist's Repertoire uses deep play to engage (often but not exclusively) physical risk to reach the stranger, So-Called Strangers uses strangers to engage psychological risk in order to enter into a state of deep play that merges into pure psychotherapy.