Ballet is a highly technical, performance dance that consists of choreography and a music accompaniment. Ballet originated during the grace and grandeur of the Italian Renaissance and, throughout the centuries, has become a globally influential dance genre and culture, celebrating the magnificence of the human body in movement. During the Renaissance period, ballet developed as a form of court entertainment, complete with elaborate sets and scenery and dancers who wore magnificent costumes that were teamed with heeled court shoes. These shoes later became the inspiration for modern day dance and ballet shoes, which have since led on to inspire the fashionable and contemporary ballerina shoes that have become an everyday wardrobe staple for women all over the world.