PILOTA is home to Sabina Scarlat’s stage creations.

Trained in classical dance at the Bucharest National Conservatory and with a degree in psychology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Sabina Scarlat co-founded Garage29, a studio and laboratory for the performing arts. There, she questions the devices used by artists to create, and sets up the G.INcubator, an experimental support program for emerging choreographers.

As a choreographer, she likes to play with raw materials to reveal their inherent choreography.

Her first creation (Uniforme, 2017) – featuring the symbiosis of two women who mercilessly demolish a large set sculpted from sand – was awarded the prize for best scenography at the Atelier international festival in Baia Mare, Romania.

Between 2020 and 2023, she continued to create stage works in the form of collaborations initiated by others: Match 2 with Vilma Pitrinaite – in which two women manage to stick together while maintaining a fierce competition that plays on the most subtle manifestations of competition, and BALEC with Chloé Beillevaire – which explores gender stereotypes with pairs of tights and a sarcasm worthy of jesters.

In late 2023, she initiated RAW, a research project using slime and laughter as cathartic materials, inspired by representations of the wilderness goddess Artemis. In 2025, she added a new chapter to her research, experimenting with bendable metal and the aesthetics of Futura, the robot woman from the film Metropolis elevated to the status of technological deity.

Sabina Scarlat is supported by Danse Dense, a French platform for the identification, visibility and accompaniment of emerging artists.