An adults-only burlesque haka is on the schedule, for this year's Auckland Matariki Festival.

The Maori New Year festival includes mostly family-friendly events, like movie screenings, markets and kite-making days.

But there'll also be a three-week season of R-rated Edinburgh Fringe Festival cabaret Maori After Dark.

Its creator says the show will "gently shock" and cause a stir, like "sex with clothes on."