Complex sentence: Though ethnically Russian, Womack was born in California and raised in California and Texas, one of nine children, she trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet before attending the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2009 after Academy teachers noticed her at that year's summer intensive.
Split into simpler sentences: Though ethnically Russian, Womack was born in California and raised in California and Texas, one of nine children. She trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet before attending the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2009 after Academy teachers noticed her at that year's summer intensive.