They met in 1977 at Annie Fratellini’s National Circus School. He was learning comic stunt acrobatics, she was a tight-wire artist. In order to join her on the wire, he began tight-wire walking. Together they created a duo on the wire and in 1983 they were awarded the silver medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, and left to spend two seasons at the Cirque Roncalli. From 1985 to 1988, they took part in creating the Cirque du Soleil. In 1987, Antoine played the role of Quasimodo with the Théâtre de l’Unité and then, with Ars Nova and the Compagnie Foraine, Agathe and Antoine created The Soldier’s Story in 1989. In 1990, with “funny birds”, they took part in the creation of La Volière Dromesko, with which they toured throughout Europe for 4 years. In 1993, they were awarded the Grand Prix National du Cirque and decided to focus their research on the use of their artistic discipline in theatre situations. They created the duo Amore Captus, a meeting between a man and a woman in which the wire – this 12mm wide stage – symbolises the fragility and complexity of their love relationship. They continued their collaboration with the theatre by assisting Mathias Langoff in Le Révisor de Gogol, Dans la jungle des villes by Brecht and with the Footsbarn Theater, playing in Ne touchez pas à Molière and Le Cabaret Inattendu, etc.
Agathe and Antoine ask the other artists in the company to help them run courses, workshops and meetings with other tight-wire artists whilst they are on tour in France and abroad. These possibilities are also available in La Cascade, Maison des Arts du Clown et du Cirque in Bourg-Saint-Andéol, which the members of Les Colporteurs helped to found. Agathe teaches in the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (Châlons-en-Champagne) and in the Académie Fratellini (Saint Denis).