Hélène Bouchet (born 1980) is a French ballet dancer is a principal dancer at the Hamburg Ballet.

Bouchet was born in Cannes in the south of France. She studied ballet at École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and at the École Nationale de Danse in Marseille under Raymond Franchetti and Dominique Khalfouni.^[1]

After dancing with the Roland Petit's Ballet National de Marseille and English National Ballet, she joined the Hamburg Ballet in 1998. She became a soloist in 2003 and principal dancer in 2005. She had originated a number of roles in John Neumeier's works, including La Barbarina in Death in Venice, Tatiana Larina in Tatiana and Eurydice in Orpheus. She won the Prix Benois de la Danse for the latter.^[1]

As a guest artists, she took part in the Tokyo Ballet's 50-year anniversary celebrations, dancing the title role in Romeo and Juliet with Thiago Bordin,^[2] and Jewels with the Mariinsky Ballet, as well as in Germany, France, Japan, Luxembourg, U.S., Russia and Argentina.^[1] In 2003, wearing a Gypsy dress, Bouchet performed "The Gipsy Tunes" in Mougins, France, with her sister, Diane Bouchet, on violin.^[3]

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• Silver medal, Varna International Ballet Competition, 2002
• Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Prize, 2004
• Prix Benois de la Danse, 2010