D.C. United plays 0-0 draw with Chicago Fire in MLS preseason opener

D.C. United opened its preseason schedule with a 0-0 draw against the Chicago Fire on Sunday at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla.

Four players returning from injury missed the match — defender Ethan White, midfielders Chris Pontius and Nick DeLeon, and forward Josh Wolff. Midfielder Kurt Morsink returned to Washington after suffering an injury in training this past week. Goalkeeper Bill Hamid, on U.S. national team duty the past four weeks, was scheduled to report to camp Sunday night.

Dwayne De Rosario, the 2011 MLS most valuable player, was held out. He is not injured and seems likely to make his 2012 debut Thursday against Swedish club Malmo in Bradenton, Fla.

Argentine center back Emiliano Dudar, United’s latest signing, played 35 minutes in the second half.

Joe Willis played 74 minutes in goal, with trialist Andrew Dykstra finishing the match. Another goalkeeping trialist, Josh Lambo, didn’t play.

United is expected to update its list of trialists by Monday. Forward Alanzo Adlam, a trialist from Jamaica, was cut this weekend.

For United’s lineup on Sunday.....

D.C. United, First half: Joe Willis; Robbie Russell (Chris Korb 31th), Brandon McDonald, Dejan Jakovic, Daniel Woolard; Andy Najar, Perry Kitchen, Ryan Richter*, Branko Boskovic (Stephen King 31st); Blake Brettschneider, Maicon Santos (Stefan Jerome* 43rd).

Second half: Joe Willis (Andrew Dykstra* 74th); Chris Korb (Charles Rodriguez* 64th), Sebastian Svard*, Emiliano Dudar (Josey Portillo**, 80th), Jed Zayner*; Seth C’deBaca*, Marcelo Saragosa*, Ryan Richter* (Conor Shanosky 64th), Stephen King; Blake Brettschneider (Lance Rozeboom* 71st), Stefan Jerome*.

*trialist

**guest player from Florida Gulf Coast University

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Jazz-based contemporary dance ensemble River North Dance Chicago is tasty, talented and has the technical proficiency to pull off a fun program with serious panache.

On Friday at the George Mason University Center for the Arts, River North presented seven old and new works that ranged from fierce to folkloric. This company has strong links to Chicago’s superb Hubbard Street Dance: River North’s artistic director Frank Chaves danced with Hubbard from 1987 to 1993. Both companies are imbued with the same spirit and sassiness, both claim jazz roots, though Chaves sees Hubbard as having moved over the years more toward European-flavored contemporary dance while River North has remained based in jazz. He defines jazz dance as “accessible and entertaining.”

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It’s a good thing that Chaves is not a stickler for strictly defined categories, because the four works on the program that he choreographed all speak with a body language solidly based in ballet. Chaves cleaves to line and structure. For example, in his 2011 “Simply Miles, Simply Us,” set to the music of jazz great Miles Davis, the clear musical structures that Davis so favored become visible to the eye. Chaves plays the saxophone and was a music major in his first year of college. No wonder, then, that he describes himself as a “music-first choreographer.” When he hears a piece of music, he says, he sees the dance in his head. In “Simply Miles,” the choreography deploys riffs, follows themes and responds to changes in key. It brings to life textures and timbres and channels the delicacy and “cool” jazz of Davis’s music.

Also on the program were “Evolution of a Dream,” “Beat,” “Sentir em Nos (Even for Us),” “Train,” and “Fixe.” The lively and folkloric “Habaneras, the Music of Cuba” brought to a successful close the kind of evening Chaves likes to call “a little escapism here at the theatre for a couple of hours.”

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