Editing Modern Western square dance (section)

=== Square dance's maturity ===
Since the 1960s, popularity of square dance has declined, as the square dance audience got older without young dancers to replace them. Square dance has also been gradually removed from public school curriculums.

In the 1970s, the [[Callerlab]] organization was established that standardized dance calls.

The 1970s and 1980s also found new audiences for square dance, most notably [[gay square dance]] and [[youth square dance]].

Square Dancing in the UK has seen diminishing numbers of dancers since the 1990s as the activity has failed to attract sufficient numbers of younger dancers. There is a great deal of debate as to how to arrest this decline, or even if the decline should be addressed and accepted as inevitable. British dancers tend to be older people - this is in contrast to countries such as Denmark and Germany where there are flourishing numbers of teenage, student, and family dancers.