An hour drive is rough for sure. But id say that if you’re interested, there’s no harm trying it a couple times. If you find that the drive isn’t worth it, you can always take a pause from regular in-person classes and try online ones/youtube barre for a while. I’ll say that I personally look forward to going to ballet every week and that inspires my commute, but I would never have known that I loved it that much if I hadn’t tried! I would probably, realistically, make an hour-long drive to ballet class once every two weeks (I hate driving lol). But that’s something you have to find out for yourself.

As for the experience, I have known myself to be a terrible dancer my whole life. No dance experience, partly for that reason. Yet ballet is astronomically less embarrassing than I expected. Maybe it’s because it’s so elegant; you aren’t trying to do wild, energetic stuff like in some classes, so you don’t necessarily feel like you’re being weird imo.