Complex sentence: Ludmila Pagliero is the first South American to receive the title of étoile; she is also one of a very few to have been admitted to the Paris troupe without training at the Paris Opera Ballet School.
Split into simpler sentences: Ludmila Pagliero is the first South American to receive the title of étoile. She is also one of a very few to have been admitted to the Paris troupe without training at the Paris Opera Ballet School.