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The flash mob performers dancing and in zombie makeup.

A zombie flash mob invades Adams Morgan

A spooky dance, put on by the Adams Morgan BID, promoted Halloween and the last day of the 18th Street pedestrian zone.

A zombie attack invaded Adams Morgan Sunday afternoon in a flash mob choreographed to Halloween-themed songs.

The Adams Morgan BID staged the event to promote the pedestrian zone on 18th Street NW and Halloween, which is coming up next week. 鈥淭he objective of the pedestrian zone is to be a tool for the economic recovery of all the businesses in Adams Morgan,鈥 according to the .

The Adams Morgan pedestrian zone on 18th Street.

Performers started staggering into the middle of 18th Street in a zombie-like fashion a little after 2 p.m. They all wore matching white T-shirts and had zombie makeup on.听听

Kristen Barden, executive director of the Adams Morgan BID, was in charge of the flash mob, which appeared right before a fashion show.

鈥淲e wanted to kick off the fashion show with something that was fun,鈥 Barden said.

The performers stayed in character as they danced to 鈥淗eads Will Roll,鈥 鈥淟ook What You Made Me Do鈥 and, of course, the classic Halloween anthem 鈥淭hriller.鈥

鈥淚t was fun,鈥 Shine Chang, freshman on the American University cheer team, said. 鈥淚t was a little cramped, but we still made it work.鈥

Chang said that her team practiced the dance a couple times during their designated practice time, 鈥渂ut it was mostly by ourselves, or working with other people on our team to try to get it to the best it could be.鈥

She added that a large part of what made the experience fun was because of their outlook on it.

Garbage trucks block off 18th Street for the pedestrian zone.

鈥淚t was fun just cause we would make it fun instead of thinking about it in a bad way,鈥 Chang said. 鈥淪o that definitely made it better than 鈥極h god we have to act like zombies.鈥 We made it a fun thing. We could鈥檝e made it worse. But it was a really fun experience.鈥

Chang鈥檚 teammate, Miranda Lynch, said she was happy with the performance.

鈥淚 feel pretty good,鈥 Lynch, a junior, said after the flash mob ended.

However, Lynch added that the performers were originally given a different story about what the flash mob would be for.

鈥淲e were told that it was going to be about a proposal,鈥 Lynch explained. 鈥淚鈥檓 very thankful that it was not the case, because I think I would鈥檝e felt very awkward watching a proposal, especially after a zombie themed flash mob. But we were not told why it was zombie themed nor that the event in general would have a Halloween theme to it.鈥

Despite the absence of a proposal, the nearly three-minute dance was met with applause and intrigue from bystanders.

Today was the last day for the Adams Morgan pedestrian zone, because they were only given permission from the D.C. government to host this event on three different Sundays. The BID also received $525,000 from the D.C. Office of Planning鈥檚 鈥淪treets for the People鈥 grant program.

A flyer detailing the all-day events of the last Adams Morgan pedestrian zone.

According to the Adams Morgan BID website, 鈥淭he majority of the funding will support the purchase and installation of permanent infrastructure.鈥

Although the pedestrian zone won鈥檛 be back for a while, the fun events will go until late tonight.

鈥淭here鈥檚 lots of programming, all afternoon until 10 p.m,鈥 Barden said. 鈥淪o, everyone should come out and check it out.鈥

Nicole Yu

Nicole Yu is a graduate student studying broadcast journalism at American University. She is passionate about the Asian American community and women's rights. Nicole is originally from San Jose, Calif. where she has four dogs who she loves dearly, but she currently lives in Washington, D.C.

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