Every night, 69-year-old Edinson chooses one of his 11 pairs of dance shoes, slips into a smart suit and heads out to dance tango in the clubs of Montevideo, a city that is looking to breathe new life into an old tradition, one that has long been eclipsed by its more famous neighbor, Buenos Aires. `I`ve been dancing for 10 years now,` said Edinson, a retired soldier, and this stylized exit from his house has become a nightly ritual, `no matter what the weather is.` With a nod of his carefully coiffured-head, he invites a woman onto the parquet dance floor, where they skillfully glide past other couples in a club that is almost hidden behind a covered market. It is here that the Joventango (`Young tango`) association organizes so-called `milongas` every week, evenings of dance that are open to initiates as well as to the merely curious and the passing tourist. Tango was born in the late 19th-century, behind the closed
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