This research is based on fieldwork in southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The region is rich with dance practices including performances that are deeply intertwined with local cosmologies including notions of spirits and ancestors. The region is also deeply Christian. Over the past few decades engagement with Christianity has changed, with the growing popularity of pentecostal and revival typed churches many individuals have come to understand these dance practices as “heathen”, as contributing factors to their country's poor sociopolitical conditions. This paper examines the affective relationship that many of these individuals have with these practices. Having grown up with and having been a part of these practices before leaving them behind, their relationship with these practices is not clear cut. By focusing on the continued affectual presence of these customs in these individuals’ lives, in their discourse, I aim to examine how these practices continue to have a palpable presence even when individuals may claim a desire to move away from them.