Jeshua Costa discovered dance at the age of 8 through hip-hop. At the age of 12, he left his home town of Lecce in southern Italy to study at the Rome Opera School of Dance. He graduated in 2013. That same year, he joined the Ballet de l'Opéra de Nice and then, a year later, the Tanzcompany Innsbruck in Austria, where he remained for four years. Returning to France in 2018, he danced for five years with the Malandain Ballet de Biarritz and joined the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon in September 2023.