At 30, this couple of acrobats created a tattoo parlor and a Texas food truck to ensure their retirement

Justine Decaux and Florian Rodriguez are barely 30 years old. And yet, for more than a year now, the couple, both in the city and on stage, have been preparing for their retirement. These two are acrobats and made themselves known with their duo Mechanic’Circus. Their specificity: “We are the only ones in France, even in the world, to have created a figure where it is the woman who carries the man. This is what made us famous. »

Since leaving the Chambéry circus school, where they met, these two have not spared themselves, inventing a style of their own, where acrobatics mix with humor, all in a universe inspired by the 1950s, an era that fascinates them. “But a career as an acrobat after the age of 30 gets complicated,” emphasizes Justine. We already have the body starting to tell us to slow down. »

For two seasons, they have stopped spending their lives on the road, from circus scene to circus scene, and are performing in the cabaret Le Petit Paradis, in Pont-du-Casse: “We continue with Mechanic’Circus only the summer, occasionally at festivals. » The rest of their time, they devote to preparing their professional retraining, in the heart of the Villeneuve countryside, in a property in Trentels.

From tattoo to Texan smokehouse

These two are teeming with off-road projects, but always bathed in their passion from the rockabilly era. The first, in part of a huge barn still under renovation, is Justine’s tattoo parlor: “I’m self-taught. I trained during Covid, when we were forced to stop artistically. » After training on synthetic skin, then on Florian and, finally, on a multitude of friends convinced by her style, Justine created the Cadillac shop, made up of two spaces, nail salon and tattoo, planted in a Hawaiian decor straight out of one of Elvis Presley’s films. “What I really like about tattooing is making covers and working on scars,” explains Justine.

Cadillac shop is only the first step in the new life of acrobats. The next one will be launched this summer, with the first releases of their “Texan-style” food truck, a giant barbecue that cooks the meat by smoking it: “It will be installed on a trailer given its size,” explains Justine. To tow it, the couple went to find a 1958 Chevrolet Viking truck in Belgium. They announce it: their food truck will be unique. Justine and Florian do not refrain from making the barbecue a spectacle, where humor will be invited.

Their imagination does not stop there, since they also intend to use their barn, with old stones and exposed beams, to create a cultural place where lovers of the American fifties could well find what they are looking for, “with concerts, and even country or rock balls… We would take care of the catering part with the food truck. » Enough to shake up the Thirty countryside!

Cadillac shop in Trentels, by appointment only, on 06 19 06 49 10.