Meet Coach Kayla Shorma
founded Dreams Come True Dance in 2009 with a mission to teach the love and art of dance through technique fun and flair. Kayla’s life-long passion for dance began with donning her first dance shoes at age 3. Over the years she has learned and studied multiple dance forms including Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pointe, Clogging,
Tap and Lyrical. Coach Kayla got married in August 2010 to her husband Paul. They live in Grand Rapids with their little Chihuahua Autobahnz. Kayla enjoys hanging out with her friends and family, being on the lake and cooking. She loves sushi, picking flowers and traveling.
Kayla has danced in more than 35 performances before graduating high school. As a teen,
Kayla was offered the opportunity to student teach alongside her dance instructors and was later selected 
to teach classes on her own at the studio she studied at.
In High School she also attended workshops by James Sewell and his Company of Dancers, Galina Mezentseva, Alvin Ailey and others. Kayla graduated from Grand Rapids High school in 2003. During College she studied children’s health and received her Associates Degree in Childhood Development.
Prior to opening her dance studio in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Kayla coached gymnastics for four years and started a small dance program where she coached. The dance program flourished and expanded to become her now 200-plus student base today.
Coach Kayla believes Dance is a life-long learning process and she continues to participate in classes and workshops. She also gives her students many opportunities to work with other instructors.
In the summer of 2010 DCT Dance was honored to have Valery Lantratov (Artistic Director or the Russian Ballet Foundation) come and teach their students.
Kayla strives to not only teach her students the art, technique and love of dance but also confidence, grace and poise.
Assistant Coaches
Emily Ferrel
Emily graduated in 2009 from Cloquet High School and is attending college at UMD to major in business and a minor in
dance. Emily has been dancing since she was two years old. She studied Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Hip hop and Modern.
She was involved in her high schools dance team and has competed in many dance competitions. She has also performed
at public performances including the 2010 Capital One Bowl half time show and the Globe trauters halftime
show. In 2005 Emily began teaching at the studio she had attended since she was young and also started coaching at
DCT’s in June 2010.
Coach Casey
Casey has been dancing since she was 4 years old and always dreamt of becoming a dance teacher someday. In her 14+ years of dancing, Casey has studied Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Modern and Irish dance. She has been to many master classes with various dance companies including James Sewell, the Moscow Ballet, and ABT. She also attended the West Coast Dance Explosion. While dancing in high school, Coach Casey student taught alongside her instructors for 6 years. She graduated from Grand Rapids High School in 2011. When Casey
is not dancing she enjoys scrap‐booking, doing hair or pushing herself with hardcore ab workouts. Casey began coaching at DCT in the summer of 2011.
Paden Steinert
Paden grew up in Grand Rapids and graduated from Grand Rapids High school in 2007. This self taught Hip Hop Guru
has been dancing since he could walk. Paden is attending ISC and studying Architectural Design. Coach Paden is always
striving to bring the latest Hip Hop moves to the students he teaches. Paden enjoys teaching dance so he can share his
passion with his students. Paden has been a Coach at DCT since October 2009.