Gerard Wilk

Career Hulanicka persuaded Wilk to move to the Warsaw ballet school. When he passed his final exams there in 1964, he already had dance employment. He climbed all the way in the ballet hierarchy: from a member of the corps de ballet to the coryphée. In 1968, he joined the troupe of the Warsaw Grand Theater (now Polish National Ballet), where he became a soloist in 1970. Wilk was appreciated by critics and the public. Performances with his participation became mass events. The critics wrote that he was an individuality, attracted attention, that one could admire both the mastery with which he performs the dance, and at the same time, the spontaneity, the ability to convey emotions. Gry (1970) and Podróż magiczna (1979, choreo ). Gry, choreographed by earned awards on Prix Italia 1970 and Polish Short Film Festival in 1971. He also performed in ballet etudes of Krzysztof Komeda.

From 1970, he stayed abroad, unable to return for years because of passport problems. Until 1981, he performed in the Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century in Brussels. In 1981, he decided to end his stage career. He moved to Paris and started teaching there in 1989. He also taught dance in Munich, Berlin, Florence and Monte Carlo. Once a year, he came to train dancers at the Warsaw's Grand Theatre, where he staged Massenet's opera Werther in the fall of 1994. In 1995, he appeared as the title character in the documentary film Gerard Wilk - kilka razy zaczynałem od zera (Gerard Wilk - I started from scratch several times), directed by Bogdan Łoszewski.

Private life In the 60s, Wilk briefly dated Spanish theatre scenographer , then living in Poland. Two men remained lifelong friends until Puigserver's death. He kept the fact of the HIV infection a secret even from his closest friends. The farewell ceremony took place at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, there was no burial. The urn with the ashes was taken to his estate near Paris by Jean-Jacques Le Corre.