Sophie Basarrate, 14, and Kevin Silverstein, 15, stood out to lead the rescued children with their finely presented, scrupulous dancing as two of the now-peaceful kingdom's most upstanding individuals.
Miyamoto recognizes that there is pleasure in difficulty but also in ease, in mastery, in performing a familiar act with aplomb, whether that be catching a baseball, dancing a tango, doing Sudoku, or steering Mario through the Mushroom Kingdom, jumping on Goombas and Koopa Troopas.