Viktor Kiktev,

who now performs as Viktor Kee, was born in Priluki,
Ukraine.

His mother worked as a dancer and his father was a musician.

At four, he attended a children’s ballet school but it wasn’t long before his journey to the circus began. His older brother was attending the local children circus school "Uday" and smuggled Viktor into the school at the age of six.

There, he was introduced to a remarkable teacher called Alex Gruzin who was to become a major inspiration to Viktor. He took the young boy under his wing and trained him in acrobatic, equilibristic, magic, clowning and last but not least: juggling. He passed on a great deal more then just skills - he gave Viktor something very precious to treasure for the rest of his life - Love for the Art of Circus.
By the age of 11, Viktor was focusing more & more on juggling. Two years later, he developed and conceived his first act, in which he brought together juggling of 3 & 5 large balls with a popular, trendy Break Dance routine that was so popular at the time. The success of that act confirmed o the young man that he wanted to be above all else in the world: a juggler.
In 1989, Viktor entered the Professional Circus School in Kiev where he began a four year long, arduous, highly specialized training program. Practicing juggling along with acrobatic, acting, equilibristic and dance for 10-14 hours a day bringing Viktor to a point where he, besides being a somewhat good acrobat, a hand balancer, or an actor could also juggle 9 balls, do a 7 balls pirouette, a 5 balls double pirouettes and pirouetting under 6 balls with 7th on a forehead.
However, Viktor was more fascinated by the artistic aspects of juggling than the numbers, or the strictly technical characteristics of that art-form. He spent day after day practising, perfecting and polishing his moves always in quest of new movements and routines. Teacher, Aracady Poupon was a huge influence and help.
In 1989, Viktor`s style caught the eye of well-known Ukrainian choreographer
Nikolay Baranov. For three years they laboured, developing an act that would bring something unique and matchless in the world of juggling.
Pioneering a new style with only three balls in which he incorporated his juggling with contortion, acrobatic,

drama and dance:
Viktor emerges from a clear bubble, like a bird from an egg, smoke hangs in the air, red light washes over him and the music begins to pulse. Suddenly, the audience sees before them this incredible man, moving with liquefied acrobatic precision combined with his flawless juggling style.

His career really took off in 1994, when Viktor won the Silver Medal & the prestigious Raspini Award at the 17th International Circus Festival "Cirque de Demain" in Paris.

His stage name was changed to Viktor Kee & he started performing around the world in the most prestigious venues such as :

Moulin Rouge - Paris

Friedrichstadtpalast - Berlin

Pomp Duck & Circumstance - New York

Mirage - Las Vegas

Lido de Paris - Paris

MGM Grand - Las Vegas (as a special guest of Barbra Streisand`s Millenium Night Performance)

Royal Albert Hall - London

Cirque du Soleil "Dralion" - Canada, USA, Mexico, England, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, ...

It was 1999 when Viktor Kee joined Cirque du Soleil in their production "Dralion".

From there Kee, develops his act to a new level where it is recognised as an original and exclusive work of art that it is so famous around the world:

An almost nude human-like creature appears onto the stage leaping out of a gigantic spider.
A beautiful woman, hanging many feet above, drops a white ball to him, a gift
from a goddess, then another, and another. At first, he juggles with the delicacy of a miniaturist but then his moves grow bolder, empowered by the rhythmic pulse of the music. His body twists and turns, stretches and contorts, but with finesse, precision and power of a danseur noble. All the while, the balls orbit around him, seemingly not even glancing off his fingertips, but simply following his will as they dance in space when they're not gliding over, down and along, every path of his body.
In his uniquely avant-garde style, the balls dance around his body; in his abstract yet fluid movements, the balls and the body merge to form a unified whole.
He moves from one to seven balls in an awe inspiring display of perfection.

Control, pacing and mastery over his body and props hypnotizes the entire audience.

The New York Times wrote:
"What if Diagelev choreographed for a juggler ? That's all you can think about as Viktor Kee performs a wondrous ballet with spheres rolling in precise patterns across his body as though gravity was a force that did not apply to him ..."

In 2003 Viktor Kee won a Silver Clown Award at the 27th International Circus

Festival in Monte Carlo

Viktor says, "My greatest inspiration was, is & will always be - my idol Francis Brunn.
His movement, his skills, his presence - everything he did, has inspired me to
be who I am today."

For the 80th birthday of Francis Brunn Viktor Kee & Oleg Izossimov presented
Francis with a unique gift...
A Star!
In a middle of Constellation of Taurus (the Bull) like a heart of a Bull a star is shining that has a name - Francis Brunn.
At the Astrology Association, we found an unnamed star and purchased the name
for it - Francis Brunn (with all official documents from an International Astrology Association). It maybe sounds simple to most of us, but it took more then an hour of intense explanations to Francis until he finally understood what it really was.
"Francis Brunn - A star that will shine : Forever!"