Tango on the rise in organized dance parties  Posted: Sunday,
September 28, 2003  CHICAGO The music had barely flowed out of
the portable speaker in the square when Ed Pamintuan whisked his
wife, Cindy, onto the cobblestones.  Reviving a dance associated
with their parents and grandparents, the couple tangoed into the
night even after the nearby cafe had closed, onlookers had gone
home and others had petered out.  ''When I dance, it's just the
music, my partner and nothing else,'' said Cindy Pamintuan, 54,
who steps out in black suede heels each week to attend a tango
dance party, called a ''milonga,'' on Chicago's northwest side.
Held in rented halls, parks, dance studios and restaurants from
Seattle to Boston, such events are fueling a slow but steadily
growing appetite for the century-old tango.  After watching the
Broadway show ''Forever Tango,'' the Pamintuans quickly tapped
into the network of dance parties weekly or monthly affairs
organized by dance studios, clubs or those with tango fever.
The coup