Among other responsibilities, Epstein teaches ballet history in the Professional Ballet and Teacher Training Programs, and co-coordinates career planning for senior students.
Trained in ballet in Winnipeg, she danced with Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers and Les Feux-Follets of Montreal. On retiring from dance, she returned to school and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1981. She practiced corporate law at McCarthy & McCarthy in Toronto until 1983 and later, while living abroad, worked in the Legal Department of the Bank of Israel and did freelance legal editing and writing in Morocco and France. 

Returning to Canada, she began the study of ballet history; first at NBS and later at York University, obtaining an MA in Dance History. She has taught ballet history at Quinte Ballet School and the Theatre School of Ryerson University. Epstein has presented academic papers for the Society for Canadian Dance Studies, the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Modernist Studies Association and has given popular talks on ballet for the Canadian Friends of the Hermitage Museum, the Bata Shoe Museum in connection with its exhibit on pointe shoes, and NBS as part of its Pointes of View Speaker series.

While living in Paris, France, she served on the Arts Committee of WICE (the Women’s Institute for Continuing Education) and has served on many arts boards including: NBS, Toronto Summer Music Foundation and Peggy Baker Dance Projects.

She is an avid tennis player