Maina Gielgud has resigned as artistic advisor to Houston Ballet. She said she resigned in early July because her situation “had become increasingly ambivalent and uncomfortable. Last season, despite a number of attendant problems, including the threat of canceling my version of Giselle, I still hoped that for 2005-2006 there might be some way of establishing a viable relationship.” She said her views and artistic director Christopher Welch’s “have diverged rapidly in relation to the long-term goals, vision, ideals, management style and methods of directing a classically based ballet company. … It has been increasingly difficult to understand where his vision lies, what his goals are’.”