Boogie Woogie as a style of music and a type of dancing was not invented by dance schools or music producers. It is a social dance with afro american roots, it was feeling and idea, a mixture of everything of former decades. There are elements of tap dance, aerials, hopping, hip shaking, dirty dancing and rubber legs. Not to forget the rhythm very close to the heart beat when you are speeding up.

Due to the music style there are step structures of 6 and 8 counts. As Rock'n'Roll too Boogie Woogie Dance belongs to the group of swing dances which are combined with Jazz, R'n'B, a little bit of everything influencing each other from the start up to now. Invented in the US during the 1930ies it also came to Europe and to Germany before the second world war. A renewal wave came over by GIs since the 1940ies and especially by the Bill Haley movie 'Rock around the clock' in 1956. Twist and Beat followed. Elvis and other artists came back in the 1970ies and since then latest Rock'n'Roll is back in style. 

The diagram below shows - sorry,  only in german - the development of swing dances.