Biography

Schuyler Wijsen began his ballet education with Paula van der Zwaan. Later, he continued training at Oakland School for the Arts under the direction of Reginald Ray Savage and Allison Hurley, as well as with San Francisco Ballet School.

In 2017, Wijsen was invited to join the School of American Ballet (SAB). While there, he performed roles in the school’s workshop performances, lecture demonstrations, and student choreography workshops, as well as with the New York Choreographic Institute. His repertoire with SAB includes George Balanchine’s Western Symphony, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Divertimento No. 15. Upon graduation in 2021, he won the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise.

His Boston Ballet repertoire includes George Balanchine’s Chaconne and Allegro Brilliante and Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote (Matador), as well as leading and featured roles in Jorma Elo’s Ruth’s Dance and Carmen, William Forsythe’s Approximate Sonata and Artifact Suite, Stephen Galloway’s DEVIL’S/eye, Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, and Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty (Pas de Trois).

Wijsen joined Boston Ballet as an artist of the Company in 2021.