Callerlab

{{Short description|Square dance caller organization}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Callerlab

| type = Square Dance Callers Association

| image = Callerlab logo.gif

| headquarters = Greenwood, Indiana

| purpose = To recruit, promote, and maintain the square dance activity.

| founded = 1974

| website = [http://www.callerlab.org callerlab.org]

| footnotes = See also: American Callers Association

}}

CALLERLAB is the international association of square dance callers, and is the largest square dance association in the United States. CALLERLAB provides guidance and education, certifying caller coaches, maintaining standardized lists of calls and definitions, and generally promoting the square dance activity. After some initial work started in 1971, it was officially established in 1974 by several members of the Square Dance Hall of Fame.{{Cite web |url=http://www.callerlab.org/AboutCALLERLAB/CALLERLABsHistory/tabid/75/Default.aspx |title=History of Callerlab |access-date=2009-02-14 |archive-date=2015-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405022609/http://www.callerlab.org/AboutCALLERLAB/CALLERLABsHistory/tabid/75/Default.aspx |url-status=dead }}"Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More", a book about state symbols by John C. Fisher, 2003, {{ISBN|0-8262-1489-4}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CI8iZ6inuFQC&pg=PA79&dq=callerlab&lr= p. 79]"The Complete Book of Square Dancing: And Round Dancing", by Betty Casey, 2000, {{ISBN|1-57441-119-5}}, p. 9{{Cite web |date=2017-04-12 |title=Not Your Grandpa's Hoedown: Square-Dance Calls Get A Remix |url=https://kjzz.org/content/459685/not-your-grandpa%E2%80%99s-hoedown-square-dance-calls-get-remix |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=KJZZ |language=en}} Callerlab makes it so people can dance anywhere in the world with uniform dance calls.{{Cite web |title='Shall we dance' |url=https://www.muncyluminary.com/news/local-news/2021/09/24/shall-we-dance/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=muncyluminary.com |language=en-US}}

Callers from all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, and England, are members of the organization, which hosts and annual convention.{{Cite web |last=Geen |first=John |title=John Geen: Lessons learned as a square-dance caller |url=https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/life/columnists/2018/05/13/john-geen-lessons-learned-square-dance-caller/591756002/ |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=Standard-Times |language=en-US}}

The average age of Callerlab members is 65.