Dancing State Department Employees Sweat It Out on Halloween

— -- Walk over to a plaza near the State Department on a Friday afternoon and you’re likely to see a group of Foggy Bottom employees dressed in an assortment of sweats and office wear, boogying down in a line dance formation while music blares through a portable PA system.

It’s a weekly workout session convened by Gary E. Bolden, a health and wellness coordinator who works in the Office of Medical Services at the State Department and who tells ABC News that his program is geared toward getting employees up and moving.

The upshot: They will be more productive once they get back to their desks, he says.

So, on Halloween Friday, Bolden was dressed in a full cowboy getup as he led about 20 employees through the steps. And there were even some officials who dressed up, one in a doctor’s outfit and another with some pink ears popping up behind her head.